Fire in the hole!

Description:

A claustrophobic boy dreams of going to college and becoming a newspaperman rather than a miner like his father, but when all union miners in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District are arrested, Mick develops new respect for his father while taking over responsibility for his family.

subjects: Fathers and sons,  Family life,  Fiction,  Labor unions,  Lead mines and mining,  Self-actualization (Psychology),  History,  Idaho, fiction,  Lead mines and mining, fiction,  Children's fiction,  Fathers and sons, fiction,  Family life, fiction

Places: Coeur d'Alene Mining District (Idaho),  Idaho

Times: 20th century