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Title: Following Dear Old Dad?: Educational Attendance Patterns in Southern Colorado Coal Mining Towns

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: Paper explores attendance patterns of school age children in counties where coal mining was the major industry - Las Animas and Huerfano Counties of Colorado and Fayette and Westmoreland Counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The authors conclude that children in the Colorado counties tended to stay in school longer.

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Authors: Burlbaw, Lynn M.; Caldwell, Heather K.

Conference Name: Mid-America Conference on History

Publisher Location: Fayetteville, AR

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Topics: Education

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