I would like to recommend a small book I found at Costco titled "A Coal Miner's Bride, the Diary of Anetka Kaminska." It's part of Scholastic series "Dear America." It's a fictional account of a young's girl diary who comes from Poland to marry a coal miner in Lattimer, Pennsylvania. It gives a very realistic look at what life must have been like for these new immigrants. I paid $6.99 US for it. Dot Hosking Huntley in SW Oregon