The Human Cost of an Emerging Industrial Economy: Coal Mining Disasters in the West-U.S.

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Historical Background 
Primary Sources    
“Bodies Indicate Instant Death of All 55 Miners,” Trinidad Advertiser, October 12, 1910       
Frances Flora Bond Palmer, Across the Continent: “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way,” 1868         
Views of the Coal-Powered West: Photos of Pueblo and Denver   
Two Photographs of Primero, Colorado     
Indemnity Ledger for Victims of the Delagua Explosion, Victor-American Fuel Company, 1910        
Newspaper Editors Weigh In on Preventing Future Disasters: The Denver Republican and the Fort Collins Courier        
Letter from Robert Uhlich, Local Union Leader, to the Deputy Labor Commissioner of Colorado, July 17, 1910       
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