The Boarding House

A mining accident, not an uncommon tragedy in Butte, Montana's copper mines in 1914, upsets 11-year-old Emmie Hynes's world. With no help available from the mining company that tookEmmie's father's life, her mother takes Emmie and her brother Conrad across the mountain to the small town of Philipsburg so she can eke out a living by operating a boarding house.