Black Diamond: Mining the memories

by Cory Olson and Diane Olson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939116197
• ISBN13: 9780939116195
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Frontier
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.

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An oral history of life in a company town. Interviews with pictures and maps of the early Coal Mining Town of Black Diamond. Very well done. Originally published for the Washington Centennial in 1989. Many pictures and interviews of the "old ti mers" . Relates stories about the early Pacific Coast Coal Company, the Pacific Coast Company; moving the company town from Contra Costa County, California to King County Washington in 1885; Coal Field and Mine Operations; Mine Strikes and Mi ne Disasters.