Item Detail
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31562
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6
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English
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Life and Labor among the Immigrants of Bingham Canyon
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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2019
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87
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4
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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284-303
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"Immigrants and Bingham's terrain produced a unique life among mining towns. The long, winding Main Street reached for the cramped houses on the mountainsides and made them part of it. Talk, shouts, and oaths were heard in many languages outside the saloons, boardinghouses, candy stores, theaters, and dance halls The first of Bingham's immigrants were the young Irishmen fleeing the potato famine. They worked 10 hours a day on small claims, usually belonging to others, and lived in boardinghouses where they rivaled each other in boxing matches, wood cutting, and other feats of strength. By 1870 the 276 inhabitants of Bingham were mostly Irish who resented the incoming English, the "Cousin Jacks" as they called them. Saloons were many and prosperous, and traveling vaudeville acts were the high point in the miners' lives." [Author]
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