| Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy | | | Author:
| Ward, Robert David
Rogers, William Warren | | ISBN: | 978-0-8173-1213-8 | | Publication Date: | Jun 2002 | | Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $24.95 | Book Description:
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This book is about the men who worked involuntarily in the Banner Coal Mine, owned by the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company. And it is about the repercussions and consequences that followed an explosion at the mine in the spring of 1911 that killed 128 convict miners. This book is about the men who worked involuntarily in the Banner Coal Mine, owned by the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company. And it is about the repercussions and consequences that followed an explosion at the mine in the spring of 1911 that killed 128 convict miners. | |