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Cœur d’Alene, by Mary Hallock Foote (1894), like her Led Horse Claim and The Cup of Trembling, is a story of Colorado mining camps, and is full of realistic details. Its discusses the labor strife between Union and non-Union miners in 1892, which forms the somber background of a lovers’ comedy. There is a thread of serious purpose running through the book, showing in dramatic fashion what wrongs to personal liberty are often wrought in the name of liberty by labor organizations.
