English Miners

In this book, Christian Wright explores the complex history of the UMWA and coal mining in the West over a 50-year period of the 20th century, concentrating on the coal miners of Carbon and Emery counties in Utah. Wright emphasizes their experience during the 1970s, which saw the rise and passing of American workers’ most successful postwar effort to internally reform a major labor organization: the Miners for Democracy movement.

Friendship, family, and love are complicated things. Casey Stone had just finished a case that involved a lost little girl and now his friend Carl had just asked for his help in the rescue of his nieces—11-year-old twins—kidnapped in East Tennessee. Casey finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud between two families—rivals in the local moonshine business. The twins are hostages in a battle for turf in the liquor war being waged by the locals and outside mobs. Hidden away in the hills of East Tennessee, the girls’ lives are in jeopardy.

Gaudias Poulin is a pioneering Stampeder who has worked gold claims in Dawson all his adult life. Courage and insurmountable odds are all a normal part of life in the Yukon, a cruel country where every living thing wants to kill you. Although he always believed that the next pan would bring a huge strike, his hard-earned sweat has only brought sore bones and a niggling illness. Time has left him sick and friendless. His heart is filled with bitterness and regret. Perhaps it’s time to go back home.

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Will Cannon stops in Raton, New Mexico because the Miner's Union is causing trouble there. Will reunites with Marty and Kate and he flushes out the outlaws that are robbing and killing innocent people from the silver mine and the town of Raton.

A must-have audiobook for those interested in the history of the settlement of the wilderness along the Missouri River and West of it. There is also a harsh criticism of General Crook's failure in the the Little Bighorn Massacre.

The death of Lake Williams, a former football player at Central Montana State, in his squalid tent in a homeless camp looks to Seagate and Miner like a routine heroin overdose. Soon, however, they discover that someone hired a courier to deliver the uncut heroin, knowing that Lake would shoot up and die instantly. When a second body turns up, and then a third, the evidence points to the head coach and the other leaders of the football program.

In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s - part David and Goliath in short pants, part emancipation proclamation of college basketball - helped destroy stereotypes about black athletes.

"The Miner at Home" was written by D.H. Lawrence in 1912. Lawrence is at his best in this story, taken from the scenes of his childhood and based on characters he knew intimately. The scene can hardly be called a story in the traditional sense, being the altercation between a miner and his wife over an impending strike, but as a picture of a working miner’s family, rich in detail and the Nottinghamshire dialect, it has a fascination and vividness.

John Turner Radmore dreams of a life in the wild American West, far from the cold, dark mining tunnels of South Wales where he works hauling coal. But when he finally gets the opportunity to immigrate to America in 1868, he must first survive a near-shipwreck to begin his quest: to become a cowboy and write a book about his adventures and the stories he hears along the way.

Murders, riots, strikes, and runaway horses. Midlothian in the 18th and 19th centuries was an interesting place to live. This book introduces the listener to the hard lives of the colliers, the birth of the rural police force, and the impact the army had on life in the county south of Scotland’s capital city. Highwaymen and grave robbers, footpads and murderers, illicit distillers and murderous poachers - all lived or worked in Midlothian at a time when Scotland was changing from a rural to an industrial nation.

One old gold miner's lucky find led to greed, lies and murder that ultimately led to his demise.

His artistic ambitions crumbling as fast as his marriage, Sam careens through Europe seeking inspiration in the great Michelangelo who, for all his success, struggled to complete what was to be his magnum opus. Sam teams up with an intriguing Italian woman who opens his eyes to the deeper meaning of the Tomb: how Michelangelo’s grand ambitions got continually derailed. The result? A profound “midlife crisis.”

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On a day when Casey Stone, a New York City private investigator, was worrying about his unpaid bar tab at Pat's Bar and Grill, a long-legged, blonde beauty named Rosemary Kelly walked into his office and handed him $2,000 to find the baby girl she gave up for adoption 16 years ago. Apparently the child's father, who abandoned Rosemary when he found out she was pregnant, felt remorse for his actions and secretly established a trust fund for their child, which now exceeded one million dollars. The trust was activated when he died recently.

When Garth lost his arm, he didn’t expect to lose his love. Will he find a new start with a mail order bride? Miner Garth Warrington was all set to marry his sweetheart, Caroline, when a devastating accident leaves him with just one arm. Soon after, the pretty, and spoiled Caroline abandons him as well. Desperate and dejected Garth places an advert looking for a bride. Recent widow Amy Moorland is desperate. At a young age, she was forced to marry a cruel and abusive man but now her husband is dead. Amy cannot support herself and knows her only hope is to become a mail order bride.

The prophecy came true. I lost my friends, my family, my home. Steve took everything away from me… but I’m not going to let him get away with this. Steve is an evil serial killer – who knows how many more lives will perish because of him? As long as he is alive, not a single mob is safe. With the help of a long-lost friend, Manny and I ventured into the Overworld in pursuit of justice. Meanwhile, a group of bloodthirsty and violent mobs called the pillagers has their eyes on us, looking for trouble.

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In 1937, Mary Johnnie, a First Nations woman, considers marriage with Romeo Poulin, a pioneer and Stampeder turned small mill owner in Dawson. They have known each other for three decades and each has lost loved ones to the rugged territory that defines the Yukon.

It is 1872 when Mary Watson leaves her childhood home to work at Springbank Farm. She soon meets a handsome farmer, Joe Milburn, and becomes infatuated with him, but is he the right man for her? What will her future hold? Mary’s story is woven into a background of rural life and crime. What happens in this remote valley leaves the community reeling in shock and seeking justice.