Voices of Montana

Voices of Montana
Voices of Montana
Saying Goodbye - 1943 Smith Mine Disaster Memorialized in Song
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What would you write if you knew you had only minutes to live?
Eighty‑three years after Montana’s deadliest mining disaster, a new song, “Goodbye Wives (Wifes) and Daughters,” is reviving the story of the Smith Mine explosion and one miner’s haunting final message. Click on the podcast as songwriter Linda McKenzie and Carbon County historian Becky Van Horn tell the compelling story about the song, the tragedy, the community it shaped, and how their lives and sacrifice still matter today.
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