Ironworkers


Rigger: A Memoir from High School to High Steel
Apologies to the Iroquois with A Study of the Mohawks in High Steel
High Steel
On High Steel : The Education of an Ironworker
High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline
A More Perfect Union (J.P. Beaumont, #6)
On the street below, the weather is calm. But up here, high winds threaten to topple the workers. A sudden gust can knock them from their footing with its sheer force or send a fatal vibration through the beams on which they stand. And yet the men joke, laugh, stroll across the foot-wide beams as though they are on solid ground. To the people on the sidewalk, tiny as ants below, the skywalkers appear entirely unafraid. A hundred years ago, their grandfathers and great-grandfathers built the skys ...more
David Weitzman

Ironworkers also settled in Detroit and Buffalo. They were, for the first time in the history of Native Americans, creating a new class--the urban Indian.
David Weitzman, Skywalkers: Mohawk Ironworkers Build the City

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