Crosses of Iron

Winner of the Historical Society of New Mexico Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award—for outstanding publication in New Mexico or Southwest borderlands history In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners. Today, Dawson is a deserted ghost town. All that remains is a sea of white iron crosses memorializing the nearly f