Fire in the Hole: The Untold Story of Hardrock Miners

by Jerry Dolph

Book Overview

Book by Dolph, Jerry This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874221080
• ISBN13: 9780874221084
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Compelling Tale

This was a good, readable book; and it told a compelling tale of a young hard-rock miner, from his stabs at different jobs to his eventual career as a miner. It takes one through his apprenticeship and various adventures in the silver mines of Idaho, until by the end of the book he is a competent silver miner. I would not call Mr. Dolph a great, or even a very good writer; in fact, I doubt if he would describe himself so. He writes with an honesty and a self-effacing wit that more than makes up for any stylistic shortcomings. This book delves into a lot of the minutiae in terms of tools and techniques that a miner needs to master, but I never found this to detract from the great tale he has to tell. And, in spite of, or perhaps because of, his slight shortcomings as a writer, this is a fascinating book. He writes like someone you might like to meet.