Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters

by Nick Pappas

In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners. Today, Dawson is a deserted ghost town. All that remains is a sea of white iron crosses memorializing the nearly four hundred miners killed in the two explosions--a death toll unmatched by mine disasters in any other town...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826365280
• ISBN13: 9780826365286
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.8"