Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- The Mining Imaginary -- Place, Identity, and the Mining Landscape -- 2. TOLUCA -- The Longwall Mining District -- A "Rip-Roaring" Town -- Mine Closure and Community Survival -- Mining's Legacies -- Saving the Jumbos -- Reclaiming the Jumbos -- 3. COKEDALE -- The Trinidad Coal Field -- A Model Company Town -- The Utopian Myth -- Mine Closure and Community Survival -- Life and Landscape in the Post-Mining Era -- Preserving Cokedale -- 4. PICHER -- The Tri-State Mining District -- Landscape and Identity in Early Picher -- "Sores Beyond Cure" -- Hard As the Rock Itself -- Mine Closure and Community Survival -- The Tragedy of Tar Creek -- Whither Relocation? -- The "Town that Jack Built" -- 5. CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.