Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters

Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters - Paperback

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Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters
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Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters - Paperback

Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters - Paperback

by Nick Pappas
$25.29
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Book Overview

Winner of the 2025 Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the "the best book in mining history published during the previous two years."

Winner of the 2024 Historical Society of New Mexico Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award--for outstanding publication in New Mexico or Southwest borderlands history.

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.
ISBN9780826365286
Author Nick Pappas
PublisherUnm Press
GenreHistory
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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