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Coal camp justice

by Garcia, Ricardo L.
Series: Coal Camp Series Book 2 Published by : University of New Mexico Press, (Albuquerque :) Physical details: 317 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN:0826336973 (alk. paper).
Subject(s): African American coal miners -- Fiction. | Coal mines and mining -- Fiction. | Distilling, Illicit -- Fiction. | Missing persons -- Fiction. | Mining camps -- Fiction. | Depressions -- Fiction. | Alcoholics -- Fiction. | New Mexico -- Fiction. | Historical fiction. | Suspense fiction.
Year: 2005
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Prequel to Coal Camp Days

The story opens in 1931 when Julian and Dahlia Heard, an African American coal mining family, take in Swannie, a town drunk. Swannie finds sobriety, peace, and opportunity with the Heards until his friend Judo Perkovich dies in a tragic mining accident.

Swannie stands up for Judo's widow and, as a result, is fired from the mine. He finds work in Raton as a "dry agent," waging battle against local moonshiners in Colfax County--and the local coal camps. Swannie disappears one day while demolishing a still near Chicorico. When a body is found in the nearby hills, Swannie's friend Julian Heard is nearly killed by a camp guard who will stop at nothing to secure a confession for the crime.

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