Camerton Slope: A Story of Mining Life
| Title | Camerton Slope: A Story of Mining Life |
| Year of Publication | 1893 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 320 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Bishop, Rev. F. R. |
| Publisher | Hunt & Eaton |
| City | New York |
| Keywords | child labor; coal industry; German Americans; Irish Americans; labor strikes; Molly Maguires; Protestants; Roman Catholics; trade unions; Welsh Americans |
| Abstract | Irish miners resist the Molly Maguires’ efforts to organize a strike in Camerton, a fictitious coal town. |
| Author Biography | Rev. F. R. Bishop was born and raised in a mining town. A clergyman of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church, he was the pastor of a church in Hyndman, Bedford County, in the early 1870s. |
| Time | 1870s |
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