Follow the tale through the eyes of three miners in the toughest years of coal history: from the Irish Famine, Lincoln's funeral train, the labor victories Pennsylvania coal miners won - including protecting union members from prosecution under conspiracy laws, to the landmark 1902 anthracite strike in which miners in Scranton, represented by Clarence Darrow, forced industrialists to accept the right of unions to sit at the arbitration table for the first time in United States history. Template:Italic title Mine Seed by the poet and novelist Lucia Dailey, is a self-published work of historical fiction, published in 2002, and set in the anthracite mining region of Pennsylvania during the turbulent era of labor struggles and industrialization from the 1840s, through the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 to the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902. Poor immigrants and their descendants mined it. Anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution.
in the Lackawanna Valley deep in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. Richard Rousseau, University of Scranton Secret meetings hidden in the mountains, informants, agents, spies. comes across as an authentic record of what must have been in part a result of personal experience, family tradition and the dramatic events of the late 19th century here in the greater Scranton area-a valuable record.
ADVANCE PRAISE for MINE SEED: A powerful story-something extraordinary in literature.- Historian Howard Zinn.
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