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The coal mine represented much more than a way of making a living to the miners of Thurber, Texas, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-it represented a way of life. Coal mining dominated Thurbers work life, and miners dominated its social life. The large immigrant population that filled the mines in Thurber represented more than a dozen nations, which lent a uniqueness to this Texas town. In 1888 Robert D. Hunter and the Texas & Pacific Coal Company founded Thurber on the site of Johnson Mines, a small coal-mining village on the western edge of North Central Texas where Palo Pinto, Erath, and Eastland counties converged. For almost forty years the company mined coal and owned and operated a town that by 1910 served as home to more than three thousand residents. Marilyn Rhinehart examines the culture of the miners work, the demographics and social life of the community, and the benefits and constraints of life in a company town.
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A Way of Work and a Way of Life : Coal Mining in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926 Texas A&M Southwestern Studies ; No. 9
author
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Rhinehart, Marilyn D.
publisher
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Texas A&M University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0890964998
print isbn13
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9780890964996
ebook isbn13
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9780585175089
language
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English
subject
Coal miners--Texas--Thurber--History, Coal mines and mining--Texas--Thurber--History.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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HD8039.M615R47 1992eb
ddc
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338.2/724/09764551
subject
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Coal miners--Texas--Thurber--History, Coal mines and mining--Texas--Thurber--History.
Page i
A Way of Work and a Way of Life
NUMBER NINE
Texas A&M Southwestern Studies
Robert A. Calvert and Larry D. Hill, General Editors
Page iii
A Way of Work and a Way of Life
Coal Mining in Thurber, Texas, 18881926
Marilyn D. Rhinehart
Page iv
Copyright 1992 by Marilyn D. Rhinehart
Manufactured in the United States of America
All rights reserved
First edition
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rhinehart, Marilyn D., 1948 A way of work and a way of life : coal mining in Thurber, Texas, 18881926 / Marilyn D. Rhinehart. 1st ed. p. cm. (Texas A&M southwestern studies ; no. 9) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-89096-499-8 (alk. paper) 1. Coal miners Texas Thurber History. 2. Coal mines and mining Texas Thurber History. I. Title. II. Series. HD8039.M615R47 1992 338.2'724'09764551dc20 91-35907 CIP
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FOR MY PARENTS Emmett O. Dubberly and the late Rebekah Lane Dubberly, who taught me that honest work is honorable work.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
page ix
List of Tables
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
xv
I. Laying the Foundation
3
II. The Subterranean Community
18
III. A Way of Life: Benevolent Despotism versus Worker Control
40
IV. The Struggle for the Individual and the Union, 18881903
71
V. Boom to Bust in Unionized Thurber
92
Conclusion
113
Notes
120
Bibliography
145
Index
160
Page ix
Illustrations
Gomer Gower, circa 190811
page 9
Miner in room at mine #8, 1906
36
Thurber miners
36
In the pit
37
Hoisting engineer
37
Mine #1
38
Unloading at the tipple
38
Group of miners at mine #9
39
"Black Diamond" train at mine #12
39
Looking into town
67
Italian family with boarders, 1907
67
General store
68
Horseshoe bar in Snake Saloon
68
UMWA Band
69
Thurber baseball team
69
Fourth of July celebration, early 1900s
70
Coal mine #11
70
Page xi
Tables
1. Ethnicity and Assimilation Components in the Coal-Mining Population, Thurber, Texas, 1900
12
2. Occupations by Ethnicity and Race, Thurber, Texas, 1900
1415
3. Marital Status of Coal Miners, Thurber, Texas, 1900
16
4. Household and Family Structure of Coal Miners, Thurber, Texas, 1900
17
5. Average Number of Days Worked in Texas Mines, 18901902
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