The Prosperity Coal Company

Tommy Ross follows his older brothers to be an apprentice in the hazardous trade of mining coal. It is doubly dangerous, for his father has been sent to organize a local union in a "company owned" coal camp. "The Prosperity Coal Company" is a novel based on actual events that occurred all across the coal belt, when America was on the cusp of the great depression, and union wars raged. It was a time when mine owners sought to keep their workers in a state of constant serfdom; working in horrifying conditions, forced to live in shack houses and in mounting debt to the "company store." Herein also lives a simple love story of the mine owner's daughter and the union organizer's son.