Table of Contents

Foreword
Richard Melzer
Preface

Chapter 1. Entombed
Chapter 2. The Birth of Dawson
Chapter 3. The Early Years
Chapter 4. A Model Community
Chapter 5. The Immigrants
Chapter 6. Danger in the Mines
Chapter 7. October 22, 1913
Chapter 8. The Burials
Chapter 9. The Sorrow
Chapter 10. The Cause
Chapter 11. The Inquest
Chapter 12. Back to Normal
Chapter 13. Oh, No, Not Again!
Chapter 14. What Happened This Time?
Chapter 15. Writing on the Wall
Chapter 16. Closing Time
Chapter 17. Dawson Cemetery
Chapter 18. Down Memory Lane
Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Killed in the Explosion of October 22, 1913
Killed in the Explosion of February 8, 1923
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Nick Pappas is an award-winning journalist who dedicated more than forty years of his life to newspapers, most recently as an editor at the Albuquerque Journal. A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, he now lives with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Reviews

An engrossing tale of the rise, the flowering and contributions, the disasters, and the memories of Dawson, a very important coal-mining site in northern New Mexico."—Richard W. Etulain, author of New Mexican Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories