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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Miners at home at "Lot’s Cabin" – Miners Basin Utah 1897.
In 1924 the American Mining Congress described the miner’s cabin: "The average miner’s cabin was a log affair with the crevices chinked with mud and with dirt floors. A few boards nailed together for a bunk, pine needles for a mattress, a plank for a table, a couple of three-legged stools, a big open fireplace, an iron kettle and coffee pot, a dutch oven, a frying pan and some tin cups and plates completed their equipment."
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Luxury!
We had a hole in the ground
covered by a sheet of tarpolin.