The Deep Dark: A Review

‘Tis hard to say which is better: “The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America’s Richest Silver Mine” by Gregg Olson , or David Bond’s (pictured) review of the recount of the 1972 Silver Valley mine disaster that claimed 91 men. DeePee writes in part:

“I read the rave reviews of The Deep Dark from Publisher’s Weekly and the like and wonder if they read the same book I did. They talk of the bravado and macho of mining men like this was something different out here in the Old West. Oh, one supposes there is some truth to the notion that western hard-rock miners are a breed apart. Indeed, hard-rock mining is part balls, but it is also part intellect, part luck, part skill, part determination, part creativity – and it is surely no part dumb labor, at least not in the sense that the practice of law or banking or accounting are dumb labor. There’s nothing rote about hard-rock mining.”

For the rest of DeePee’s superb review here .