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Crosses of Iron

The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters

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Crosses of Iron

By: Nick Pappas, Richard Melzer - foreword
Narrated by: Paul Brion
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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.

©2023 Nick Pappas; Foreword copyright 2023 by the University of New Mexico Press (P)2023 Tantor Americas State & Local United States
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