From the cover:
strong text This book is a collection of facts, mining and otherwise, applicable to Southwestern Wyoming. No attempt has been made to make this a continuing story. The purpose of this book is twofold, (1) to satisfy a desire of mine to write a book and (2) to leave in writing for future generations a history that my grandparentsm my parents, and I had a part in. Lorenzo Groutage

The front cover shows the entrance to the #1 Mine in Comberland, Wyoming in 1905. The Cumberland Mines were closed sometime in the early 20th Century and were the property of Union Pacific Railroad. The area is very near to or part of what is now Kemmerer, Wyoming.

The back cover shows a photograph of Lorenzo Groutage along with the following vitae:

Lorenzo Groutage was born in Cumberland, Wyoming on June 29, 1916. He lived in the coal-mining region of Southwest Wyoming all his life.

After graduating from High School in 1934 he started to work in the coal mines as a car-dropper until he joined the Armed Forces in 1942. He served in the Medical Administrative Corps as Captain in charge of the 103rd Station Hospital in North Africa and Italy for 34 months. At the end of World War II he returned home and went to college, after working for a year as an inside-outside mechanic for the Kemmerer Coal Co. He graduated from Utah State University in Logan, Utah in June 1950, a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Fraternity. ln the Fall of 1950, He started teaching in the Kemmerer Wyoming Schools. He retired in May 1981.

Editor's note: I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Groutage when he was working as an insurance agent. I purchased two of his books, one for myself and one for my father who was born in Cumberland Mining Camp #2 in January, 1910.