Uh, so maybe Corey, if you could, uh, start with a little bit about who you are and kinda how you got into collecting, and ultimately how we get to this book.

Yeah.

So, so I started collecting photos years ago of workers, um, anywhere from, uh, 1860 to 1920s, and I kinda got fascinated by them like this, and to find out like, you know, what are these guys wearing? I was like, do the garments still exist? So I was like, I started researching on web.

I found a bunch of people.

I found a forum called Jeans of the Old West.

I joined that, became friends with several people who actually collected the pieces and found out, uh, go to find the pieces.

So th- from there, it basically all started, and then I just collected the photos for a while, and then I started to collect some of the garments, and then I would go out to the mines with a friend.

Mm-hmm.