A Room for the Summer: Adventure, Misadventure, and Seduction in the Mines of the Coeur d'Alene

by Fritz Wolff and Wolff

In A Room for the Summer, Fritz Wolff takes the reader on a memorable journey into the rough-and-tumble world of hardrock mining, recounting his experiences both above and below ground as an apprentice engineer during the late 1950s.

In June 1956, at the age of eighteen, Wolff went to work for the Bunker Hill Company in Kellogg, Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alene region. Arriving in a tired 1939 Chevy coupe, with about twenty dollars in his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806169001
• ISBN13: 9780806169002
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"