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Collection Name:
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Colorado Coal Project
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Title:
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Driving mules in Weld County coal mines (pt. 2 of 3)
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Creator:
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Margolis, Eric, 1947-
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Creator URI:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00101170
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Creator:
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McMahan, Ronald L.
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Creator URI:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94033808
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Subject:
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Coal mines and mining
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/865355
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Subject:
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Coal Strike (Colorado : 1913-1914)
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1404237
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Subject:
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Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1758648
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Subject:
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Coal miners--Colorado--History--20th century
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Subject:
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Quality of life--United States--History
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Subject:
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Coal mine accidents--Colorado--History
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Subject:
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Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/41401
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Subject:
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Coal miners--Personal narratives
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Subject:
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Interviews
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423832
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Description:
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A retired coal miner talks about his mining days, which began when he was 15 years old. He worked at numerous mines, wherever there was work, mostly as a mule team driver. He expounds on work hours, his pay, lunch pails, and meeting Mr. Rockefeller. Winters were spent in tents with wooden floors and a stove and miners worked ten hours per day. In the summer there was little mining work. Miners took on other jobs and families went into debt. He explains digging and loading procedures and talks about the dangers of mining the gassy plain mines of central Colorado. He recalls explosions in Monarch, Hastings, and Berwind mines. He gives a brief description of the events surrounding the Ludlow Massacre, at which he was shot. Convinced that only with a union would miners improve their situation, he did some organizing in Wyoming and was blacklisted for 2 years.
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Description Type:
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summary
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Description:
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Transcript does not start until 44:40 minutes into video; 10:00 -- Poor wages and conditions discourage DeSantis's sons, his memories of Mother Jones; 20:00 -- Memories of Ludlow massacre, photos from his time working as a miner, 30:00 -- Photo of tent colony at Ludlow; the 1927 strike, his involvement with the union, 40:00 -- Lack of skills forced many miners to continue work in the mines; 46:16 -- Transcript begins (pg. 31 of pdf transcript); 50:00 -- Lack of respect for miners (pg. 33 of pdf transcript); 60:00 -- Work and safety in the mines, dangers of gas in the mines (pg. 39 of pdf transcript).
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Description Type:
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Segment Sequence
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Publisher:
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University of Colorado Boulder Archives
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Contributor:
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DeSantis, Dan, 1896-1981
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Date:
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1978-01-19
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Type:
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Moving image
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Format:
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video/mov
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Identifier:
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114-DeSantis.mov
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Identifier ARK:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/t51g3224j19w
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Language:
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English
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Relation:
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Title: Driving mules in Weld County coal mines
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Relation Type:
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isFormatOf
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Relation href:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/mj721m412757
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Relation:
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Title: Driving mules in Weld County coal mines (pt. 1 of 3)
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Relation Type:
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isPartOf
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Relation href:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/wv3c3d92k911
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Relation:
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Title: Driving mules in Weld County coal mines (pt. 3 of 3)
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Relation Type:
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isPartOf
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Relation href:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/v35f0r03j67t
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Berwind Mines (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (mine)
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Coverage (Temporal):
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1913/1978
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Colorado (United States, North America) (first order administrative divisions)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Eagle Mine (Weld, Colorado, United States, North America) (mine)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Imperial Mine (Weld, Colorado, United States, North America) (mine)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Ludlow (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Monarch Number One Mine (Boulder, Colorado, United States, North America) (mine)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Morley Mine (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (mine)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Weld County (Colorado, United States, North America) (civil)
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