Prologue
A Colony Of Miners
Chapter One
No Vestige Of A Beginning
Chapter Two
Beneath The Golden Salmon
Chapter Three
A Ponderous Pyramid Of Ruins
Chapter Four
Who Could Live In Such A Hole?
Chapter Five
Greed And The Gilded Age
Chapter Six
Let There Be A Town
Chapter Seven
Lazytown
Chapter Eight
He Was That Young
Chapter Nine
I’m Only A Broken-Down Mucker
Chapter Ten
Jimmy And The Wolf
Chapter Eleven
Silence Profound And Sinister
Chapter Twelve
Moore The Magnificent
Chapter Thirteen
The Darkness Of All Darknesses
Chapter Fourteen
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Epilogue
Way Down In The Hole
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Permission Credits
Index
John DeMont is the best-selling and award-winning author of Citizens Irving: The Irvings of New Brunswick and The Last Best Place: Lost in the Heart of Nova Scotia. He has written for many publications, including the Financial Times, Canadian Geographic, The Walrus, and Maclean’s, where he was Atlantic bureau chief for ten years.
"There is a history big and small here, heroism and heartbreak, and
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— D'Arcy Jenish, author of Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the
Opening of the West
"John DeMont has written a fascinating global history....Coal Black
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— Atlantic Books Today
"A moving work of memoir, archival research and fireside
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— Canadian Geographic
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