Crosses of Iron : The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters
by
Nick Pappas
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0826365280
ISBN-13
9780826365286
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Imprint
University of New Mexico Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2023
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
400 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.70 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
History of the Americas20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000Social & cultural history
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Tells the tragic story of what was once New Mexico’s largest and most modern company town and of how the strong, determined residents of the community coped with two heartbreaking catastrophes.
Winner of the 2025 Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the "the best book in mining history published during the previous two years."
Winner of the 2024 Historical Society of New Mexico Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award—for outstanding publication in New Mexico or Southwest borderlands history.
In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners. Today, Dawson is a deserted ghost town. All that remains is a sea of white iron crosses memorializing the nearly four hundred miners killed in the two explosions--a death toll unmatched by mine disasters in any other town in America.
Now, to mark the centennial of the second disaster, veteran journalist Nick Pappas tells the tragic story of what was once New Mexico''s largest and most modern company town and of how the strong, determined residents of the community coped with two heartbreaking catastrophes.
Winner of the 2024 Historical Society of New Mexico Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award—for outstanding publication in New Mexico or Southwest borderlands history.
In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners. Today, Dawson is a deserted ghost town. All that remains is a sea of white iron crosses memorializing the nearly four hundred miners killed in the two explosions--a death toll unmatched by mine disasters in any other town in America.
Now, to mark the centennial of the second disaster, veteran journalist Nick Pappas tells the tragic story of what was once New Mexico''s largest and most modern company town and of how the strong, determined residents of the community coped with two heartbreaking catastrophes.
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