Tommy Ross follows his older brothers to be an apprentice in the hazardous trade of mining coal. It is doubly dangerous, for his father has been sent to organize a local union in a "company owned" coal camp."The Prosperity Coal Company" is a novel based on actual events that occurred all across the coal belt, when America was on the cusp of the great depression, and union wars raged.It was a time when mine owners sought to keep their workers in a state of constant serfdom; working in horrifying conditions, forced to live in shack houses and in mounting debt to the "company store."Herein also lives a simple love story of the mine owner's daughter and the union organizer's son.