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A Way of Work and a Way of Life - Coal Mining in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926 (Paperback, New edition)
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A Way of Work and a Way of Life - Coal Mining in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Texas A&M Southwestern Studies
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The coal mine represented much more than a way of making a living
to the miners of Thurber, Texas, in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries--it represented a way of life. Coal mining
dominated Thurber's work life, and miners dominated its social
life. The large immigrant population that filled the mines in
Thurber had arrived from more than a dozen nations, which lent a
certain distinctiveness to this Texas town. In 1888 Robert D.
Hunter and the Texas & Pacific Coal Company founded the town of
Thurber on the site of Johnson Mines, a small coalmining village on
the western edge of North Central Texas where Palo Pinto, Erath,
and Eastland counties converged. William Whipple and Harvey E.
Johnson first established a small community there in 1886 as the
railroads' demand for coal enhanced the possibility of financial
reward for entrepreneurs willing to risk the effort to tap the thin
bituminous coal veins that lay beneath the ground. Where the first
comers failed, Hunter and his stockholders prevailed. For almost
forty years the company mined coal and owned and operated a town
that by 1910 served as home to more than three thousand residents.
In some respects, the town mirrored the work and culture of
bituminous coal mining communities throughout the United States.
Like most, it experienced labor upheaval that reached a dramatic
climax in 1903 when the United Mine Workers, emboldened and
strengthened by successes in other parts of the Southwest,
organized Thurber's miners. Unlike elsewhere, however, the miners'
success at Thurber was not fraught with violence and loss of life;
furthermore, in the strike's aftermath good relations generally
characterized employer/employeenegotiations. Marilyn Rhinehart
examines the culture of the miners' work, the demographics and
social life of the community, and the benefits and constraints of
life in a company town. Above all she demonstrates the features
both at work and after work of a culture shaped by the occupation
of coal mining.
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