Did you know women played a significant role in the Kansas coalfield strike of 1921? Coal mining was a major industry in southeast Kansas in the late nineteenth century. The area became known as the “Little Balkans” from the influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe, France, Sweden, Britain, Italy, and Germany who settled there to […]
Settling the West: Union Pacific Coal Company and Cumberland, Wyoming
Does this look like a place where dreams come true? Hardly! Yet, this is what greeted Luisa and son Tony when they arrived from Italy to the place Marcello had carved out a life for them—Cumberland, Wyoming, the setting for my historical fiction novel, Marcello’s Promise, (Five Star Cengage, December 2019). As happy as Luisa […]
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