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• Germinal, by Émile Zola, trans. by Havelock Ellis (HTML with commentary at ibiblio.org)
• King Coal: A Novel, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text

• Marching Men, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)

• The Underground City, by Jules Verne, trans. by William Henry Giles Kingston
  • HTML in Israel
  • Gutenberg text

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Coal Industry of the World; With Special Reference to International Trade in Coal (US Dept. of Commerce Trade Promotion Series #105; Washington: GPO, 1930), by Hannah Marceline Hoar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Environmental Protection in the Federal Coal Leasing Program (1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Colliery Working and Management: Comprising the Duties of a Colliery Manager, the Superintendence and Arrangement of Labour and Wages and the Different Systems of Working Coal Seams (second edition; London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1906), by H. F. Bulman and R. A. S. Redmayne
  • multiple formats at Google: US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Facing Death, or, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit: A Tale of the Coal Mines (London: Blackie and Son; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, ca. 1882), by G. A. Henty, illust. by Gordon Browne
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), by Erin Ann Thomas (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• The Silent Alarm (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1926), by Roy J. Snell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ben Burton, the Slate-Picker (New York: A.L. Burt, c1888), by Harry Prentice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the Slope (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., c1899), by James Otis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Down the Slope (New York et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1903), by James Otis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns, or, The Light in Tunnel Six, by Archibald Lee Fletcher (Gutenberg text)

• The Coal Industry in Kentucky: An Historical Sketch (Frankfort: The State Journal Co., 1922), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colliery Working and Management: Comprising the Duties of a Colliery Manager, the Superintendence and Arrangement of Labour and Wages and the Different Systems of Working Coal Seams (second edition; London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1906), by H. F. Bulman and R. A. S. Redmayne
  • multiple formats at Google: US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Direct Use of Coal: Prospects and Problems of Production and Combustion (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), by Erin Ann Thomas (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• Constitutional Government Overthrown in West Virginia, by John W. Brown (PDF page images at MSU)

• History of the Union Pacific Coal Mines, 1868 to 1940 (Omaha: Colonial Press, ca. 1940), by Union Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Chinese Massacre at Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, September 2, 1885 (published anonymously, but attributed to Bromley; Boston: Franklin Press, Rand Avery and Co., 1886), by Isaac H. Bromley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd: A Drama in Three Acts (London: Duckworth, 1914), by D. H. Lawrence
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Black Earth (New York: Hillman-Curl, 1935), by Thomas Rowan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cartoons of the Welsh Coal Strike, April 1st to Sept. 1st, 1898, by J. M. Staniforth (multiple formats at llyfrau.org)

• Kentucky Miners Fight (New York: Workers International Relief, 1932), by Harry Gannes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Night Riders in Gallup (New York: International Labor Defense, 1935), by Louis Colman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hot Coal, Cold Steel: Russian and Ukrainian Workers From the End of the Soviet Union to the Post-Communist Transformations (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Stephen Crowley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Constitutional Government Overthrown in West Virginia, by John W. Brown (PDF page images at MSU)

• The Hidden Mine (originally published 1896), by Joseph A. Altsheler (HTML at woodwardworks.com)
• Murder in Space (Galaxy novel #23; New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1954), by David V. Reed, illust. by Ed Emshwiller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Lost Mine of the Mono: A Tale of the Sierra Nevada (New York: Cochrane Pub. Co., 1909), by Charles Herman Bruno Klette (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text)
• Soldiers of Fortune (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Richard Harding Davis, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; frontispiece page missing

• King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Kuningas Salomon Kaivokset (King Solomon's Mines in Finnish; Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, 1908), by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)

• Desert Gold: A Romance of the Border, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Erämaan Kultaa (Desert Gold in Finnish; Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Kirja, 1921), by Zane Grey, trans. by Väinö Nyman (Gutenberg text)
• The Ghost Camp: or, The Avengers (London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), by Rolf Boldrewood
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Gold Girl (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by James B. Hendryx, illust. by P. J. Monahan (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Gold Hunters: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds, by James Oliver Curwood (Gutenberg text)
• The Great Pike's Peak Rush: or, Terry in the New Gold Fields (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., c1917), by Edwin L. Sabin, illust. by H. T. Fisk (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• John Caldigate, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Parowan Bonanza (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1923), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Frank Tenney Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Twins of Suffering Creek (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., c1912), by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Border Legion, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Border Legion (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1916), by Zane Grey, illust. by Lillian Wilhelm Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Border Legion (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Zane Grey, illust. by Lillian Wilhelm Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Border Legion (illustrated with scenes from the now-lost 1924 Paramount film adaptation; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1924), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of '49 (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Gordon Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor (Gutenberg text)
• Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia, by William Gilmore Simms (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Ranch at the Wolverine (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1914), by B. M. Bower (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Ranch at the Wolverine (New York: A. L. Burt and Co., c1914), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Son of the Wolf, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

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