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Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Underground Rescues Facts -- Jessica McClure -- Floyd Collins -- Quecreek Mine Rescue -- Elandsrand Mine Rescue -- Wesley Autrey -- Chapter 1: Jessica McClure -- A Scary Fall -- Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- Headline News -- Life After Her Ordeal -- Rescue Equipment: The Water Jet Cutter -- Chapter 2: Floyd Collins -- Floyd's Cave -- An Ill-Advised Kick -- Help Arrives -- An Uncertain Rescue -- Floyd's Last Words -- Spelunking Safety -- Chapter 3: Quecreek Mine Rescue -- An Ominous Sound -- Warning Call -- Holding Back the Flood -- Starting Over -- Rescue Crew Reaches the Miners -- Global Positioning System -- Chapter 4: Elandsrand Mine Rescue -- Slowly but Surely -- Some Second Guessing -- Everyone Gets Out Alive -- Gold Mining Deaths -- Chapter 5: Wesley Autrey -- Sudden Crisis -- Bad Situation Gets Worse -- Sigh of Relief -- National Hero -- Subway Safety -- Words to Survive By -- More Books You'll Like -- Find Out More -- Index -- More Books from Enslow

"The journalistic collective Ohio Valley ReSource offers a searing on-the-ground perspective of an often-overlooked region that is also a bellwether for the nation at large. Includes stories like the recent Harlan County miners' strike, against a backdrop of environmental crisis, addiction, and rising white nationalism"--

As the vast majority of the population in the United States shifts to dwelling within large population centers, it is necessary to examine the responsibility and role that Cooperative Extension has to serve urban communities. Throughout its history, the land-grant system, through Cooperative Extension, has demonstrated the ability to impact the lives of individual citizens and communities positively. Within this theoretical discussion, we illuminate Cooperative Extension's responsibility to serve urban communities in the 21st Century and highlight essential milestones in the development of urban Extension throughout the past 100 years. Also, we explore the foundations and relevance of recently developed urban Extension frameworks to the practice of urban Extension and outline a process utilized to define urban for Cooperative Extension within {southern state}. Finally, we conclude by examining examples of urban Cooperative Extension initiatives and discussing their implications in broader social, environmental, and health settings.