coal mines and mining

Ivan Zoschenko, a high school football hero, returns to Coal Run years after a mining explosion that killed his father and devastated the community, intent on a showdown with former teammate Reese Raynor who is slated for release from prison where he spent fifteen years for beating his wife into a coma.

In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.

A series of bizarre medical events across the country seem to be related to the careless disposal of toxic chemicals by a West Virginia mine, and Matt Rutledge sets out to find the truth and expose the men responsible.

This discussion of coal highlights the changing technology of underground and surface mining, the controversial issue of land reclamation, and the importance of this fossil fuel's many by-products.

A child growing up in a coal mining community finds both excitement and hard work, in a life deeply affected by the local industry.

Despite her mother's objections and the love of an older classmate, sixteen-year-old Katy is determined to find a better life for herself beyond her family's poverty and sorrow in the Illinois coal mining town where they live.

Fourteen-year-old Pat McFarlane, forced to go to work as a breaker boy in a Pennsylvania coal mine after the death of his father, wonders how his already poverty-stricken family will survive when the miners, spurred on by unionist John Mitchell, call a strike in 1902.

A child's trip to her grandmother's house located in a coal-mining region results in a memorable Christmas.

Massimino emigrates from Italy to work in the coal mines of turn-of-the-century America and slowly saves enough silver to pay the passage of his fianc?e.