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Snow-Bound at Eagle's
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Bret Harte |
For some moments profound silence and darkness had accompanied a Sierran stage-coach towards the summit. The huge, dim bulk of the vehicle, swaying noiselessly on its straps, glided onward and upwar… |
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The journal of Otto Peltonen
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William Durbin |
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight… |
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Children of coal and iron
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Donald Maclean,Iain Rose |
Looks at the social and economic background to the rapidly growing iron and coal industries in Scotland during the 1800s. Includes eyewitness accounts from the Coal Report of 1842 which illustrate th… |
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From ore to spoon
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Ali Mitgutsch |
After iron ore is mined, it is poured into a blast furnace with limestone and coke and melted into molten iron. Air and alloys are added resulting in strong steel used for making spoons and many othe… |
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