Afterdamp is the story of mining life. Following the life of miner John Rossing, it shares the hard, gritty, dirty truth about the work and the industry. While John's character is fictional, the incidents in the book are not. The book covers the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate Mine Disasters, both accidents took place in Utah in the early 1900's. A tragic part of mining history, the combined death toll of these two accidents took the lives of 371 miners.Author R. Craig Johnson, a mining industry lawyer, seeks to shed light on mining, to tell the story of these events, and to honor those who lost their lives just trying to earn a living.
- | Author: R. Craig Johnson
- | Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
- | Publication Date: Dec 08, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 376 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 195900901X
- | ISBN-13: 9781959009016
