Smith, Toby

Coal Town : the life and times of Dawson, New Mexico Toby Smith - Santa Fe, NM Ancient City Press 1994 - 133 p.

Includes Biographies

Preface : Acknowledgments : Beginning : Socializing : Growing : Mining : Dying : Learning : Competing : Fighting : ending : Bibliograpy : Author Interviews

A history of how Dawson began, its people, its customs and how it came to an end. Dawson was abandoned about 1951 when the coal industry declined.

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9780941270816


History--Dawson (N.M.)
Coal mines and mining--History--Dawson, New Mexico
Ghost towns --New Mexico

--History

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