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The Men of Carbon County: Greek Miners in the American West
Labor & Trades Β·1902

The Men of Carbon County: Greek Miners in the American West

β€” Greek Immigrant Miners of Utah, from Crete, Peloponnese, and various regions of Greece

From the villages of Crete and the Peloponnese, thousands of young Greek men came to the coal mines and copper smelters of Utah in…

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