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Contents Introduction (by Ronald DEller) ...............".".........1 Preface .."."."....""."."",," " ..""....." ...",,,,,,," ." ..." .. 11 Introduction ....."""""".,,"""""""".."""....."".""...12 Location and Early Development..""."..".".""". 15 Finances and Organization ."""""""""""."".".,,24 Work in the Mines at the Turn of the Century ..... 34 The Gulf Smokeless Cool Company .""." " ".""...51 Personalities in the Smokeless Cool Fields" " .."".74 Place Names in the Smokeless Cool Fields " ..".100 Statistical Table. " ..."...,," ".""......" ..."."." ""..." ". 107 The town of Tams, with miners' houses and the Baptist and Catholic churches. c. 1920. (From the George Bragg collection,) ...

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