Journal Articles 

Christopher J. Huggard, Huggard's Mining History Odyssey: A Personal Memoir and Historiographic Commentary.

Eleanor Swent, Mines and Airplanes: A Reminiscence.

Dan Plazak, The Notorious Hartsfeld, "Process Man."

Mark Aldrich, Conserving Resources, Saving Lives: Strip Mining Coal in America, 1880-1945.

James P. Delgado, A Forgotten Robinson Gold Dredge at the Portis Mine: Diminishing Returns, Flimflam, and Bankruptcy at the End of North Carolina's Gold Rush.

Ronald M. James, Mining and the Folklore of the West: The Role of industry in Shaping Regional Traditions.

Lysa Wegman-French, Recent Publications on the History of Mining.

Book Reviews

David Forsyth, Eben Smith: The Dean of Western Mining.
Reviewed by James Copeland.

Alan J. M. Noonan, Mining Irish-American Lives: Western Communities from 1849 to 1920.
Reviewed by William Mulligan.

Leigh Campbell-Hale, Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine: The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike.
Reviewed by Dawn Bunyak.

Index to Articles Published in the Mining History Journal, 2019-2023.

Front Matter

FRONT COVER: The cemetery at Kelly, New Mexico. The fence in the foreground encloses the graves of Kelly pioneers Janiah Odell (1823-1895), Mary Melvina Odell (1826-1925), Adolph P. Bechaud (1888-1889), and Lottie M. Bechaud (1853-1941). Kelly attained a peak population of about three thousand, but, with mining waning, its post office (est. 1883) closed in 1945, its last residents departed in 1947, and many of its structures were relocated to nearby Magdalena. The mountain in the background is the tuff--the igneous rock formed of material ejected from a volcanic vent--within the caldera that produce the mineral wealth that gave life to Kelly. (Editor's photo.)

Back Matter

BACK COVER: The campus of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, at Socorro, with the Charles and Jessie Headen Center, home of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, in the background. Established in 1889 as the New Mexico School of Mines, it was one of such universities that proliferated in mining states and provinces in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, providing to the industry, then and since, personnel and knowledge that enable it to meet the resource demands modern society. (Editor's photo.)