Three men who worked on or around Big Brutus on the night it was shut down and put what the owner thought would be the scrap pile, gathered Saturday at the annual Big Brutus Miners Reunion in the shadow of the big shovel. They all started in 1961.“I cried like a baby the night they shut it down, said Harold Shideler, who had been a driver, oiler and groundman on the giant shovel. “Ev...
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