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Mining
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Death happened often enough that a certain melancholy existed between the young men and women of the little West Virginia town when they made their daily farewells
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― Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator
― Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator
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Silver mining in the United States didn’t start, like hard-core, until the mid-1850s,” Louis said. “And only really got big when the Comstock Lode was discovered in 1859 in California.”
“It was bad work. Dangerous. Like any mining. But silver also lets out fumes when it’s mined. Even Pliny the Elder wrote about how harmful the fumes were, especially to animals. You know Pliny the Elder?”
“The problem with the silver fumes,” Louis continued, “is that, over time, they gave the miners delusions.
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― The Devil in Silver
― The Devil in Silver
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