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Dalton Gackle

Dalton Gackle

Research Coordinator at the Park City Museum and author of "Park City" (Arcadia Publishing), a historian of the American West based in Park City, Utah.

Sep 4, 2026

7:03
Can you kind of talk about what maybe a nine to five looked like back in the day? Or I don't know if that's when they were clocking in and just what the conditions were like in the in the work areas.
7:12
Yeah.
7:12
Like I said, it was a really tough life.
7:15
They got very few days off throughout the entire year.
7:18
I mean, you could maybe get an exception for like a really important life event, like for the birth of a child or for like a funeral or something like that, where like everybody would be respectful about like, oh yeah, that specific guy needs that day off.
7:33
But otherwise, like for everybody, the mines were trying to operate 24-7, 365 for the most part.
7:37
So like Minors Union Day got off, Labor Day they got off.
9:48
But can you kind of talk about the variables that forced that into play with the decline of the mining industry here?

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