A room for the summer : adventure, misadventure and seduction in the mines of Coeur d'Alene /
Material type: TextPublication details: Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, c2004.Description: 264 pISBN:- 0806136588
- 9780806136585
- 622.092
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Standard Loan | Coeur d'Alene Library Adult Nonfiction | Coeur d'Alene Library | Book | 622.3423 WOLFF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610022730852 | |||
Standard Loan | Hayden Library Idaho Collection | Hayden Library | Book | 622.092/WOLFF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610014331990 | |||
No Loan | Osburn Library Idaho Collection | Osburn Library | Book | 622.092/WOLFF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not For Loan | 50610013320994 | |||
Standard Loan | Pinehurst Library Northwest Collection | Pinehurst Library | Book | 622.092/WOLFF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610014332063 | |||
Standard Loan | Rathdrum Library Northwest Collection | Rathdrum Library | Book | 622.092/WOLFF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610016750064 | |||
Standard Loan | Wallace Junior/Senior High School Library Idaho Collection | Wallace Junior/Senior High School Library | Book | IDAHO/622.092/WOLFF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610013128314 | |||
Standard Loan | Wallace Library Idaho Reference | Wallace Library | Book | 622.092/WOLFF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not For Loan | 50610017473955 | |||
Standard Loan | Wallace Library Adult Nonfiction | Wallace Library | Book | 622.092/WOLFF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 05/31/2024 | 50610014154533 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In A Room for the Summer , Fritz Wolff takes the reader on a memorable journey into the rough-and-tumble world of hardrock mining, recounting his experiences both above and below ground as an apprentice engineer during the late 1950s.
In June 1956, at the age of eighteen, Wolff went to work for the Bunker Hill Company in Kellogg, Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alene region. Arriving in a tired 1939 Chevy coupe, with about twenty dollars in his pocket, Wolff spent three college summers working for Bunker Hill. He learned firsthand the pleasures of camaraderie with fellow workers and the dangers of working underground.
Today the hardrock mining industry is all but forgotten. The Bunker Hill Company is known, not because it produced 430 million ounces of silver and not because it provided a living for thousands of families for more than a century, but because it is one of the largest EPA superfund sites. Wolff does not idealize the mining industry; for many workers the conditions were nightmarish. But in spare, lyrical prose, he evokes the intrinsic goodness of a simpler time, when hardworking folks went about their business with courage, humor, and lots of gumption.
Includes bibliographical references.
Fritz Wolff takes the reader on a memorable journey into the rough-and-tumble world of hardrock mining, recounting his experiences both above and below ground as an apprentice engineer during the late 1950s.
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