Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters
Nick Pappas
(Author)
Richard Melzer
(Foreword by)
Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$21.95
$20.41
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Publish Date
October 01, 2023
Pages
240
Dimensions
5.98 X 8.82 X 1.18 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780826365286
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Nick Pappas is an award-winning journalist who dedicated more than forty years of his life to newspapers, most recently as an editor at the Albuquerque Journal. A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, he now lives with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Richard Melzer is a Regents Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico's Valencia Campus. A former president of the Historical Society of New Mexico, Melzer is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest, Captain Maximiliano Luna: A New Mexico Rough Rider, and A History of New Mexico Since Statehood.
Reviews
"An engrossing tale of the rise, the flowering and contributions, the disasters, and the memories of Dawson, a very important coal-mining site in northern New Mexico."--Richard W. Etulain, author of New Mexican Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories