Description
Copper Country Journal brings to life a culture and community long since passed from the American landscape. It features a wealth of information, both throughout the introduction and right through the diary, in regards to the copper industry from 1845-1865. Hobart centered his narrative on Cliff Mine, some of the leading producers of copper on the earth and the main employer within the town of Clifton. He provides firsthand accounts of the unsafe conditions within the mines, the workers and their families, and the have an effect on of the mine at the employees and the community.