"An affecting, evocative, and visually stimulating homage to the forgotten laborers, at least two-thirds of them African American, who died because of their involvement in the construction of the three-mile Hawk's Nest Tunnel between 1930 and 1935....This book calls to me, and I suggest it will do so to anyone who is conversant with the history—even in a general sense—of the unprotected Black industrial worker in southern West Virginia."—Cicero M. Fain III, author of "Black Huntington"