The Miner 1938: Red Cliff Union High School

"The Miner" was the official yearbook of Red Cliff Union High School. Each class has a 'class history', as well as photographs, names, clubs, and sports. Despite the small population and class sizes, many activities and clubs were offered for students. Impromptu snapshots offered by students are also included in the final pages showing a day in the life of Red Cliff and student jokes.

Heavily influenced by nearby mining town of Gilman, mine employees and officials would frequently sit on various committees and boards related to the school. Most parents would have been employed by Climax or Gilman at the time. Sections of the yearbooks all relate to mining terms: "muckers" (used for junior high), "jigger bosses" (relates to the "jiggers", or pump trolley/rail cars usually hauling 1-2 people into the mine shaft (or, relating to where it originated, the railroad) and the jigger 'boss' would have been leading small groups and teams of men through the mines on each of these railcars). A "tailings" section, representing the ore wastes that are a production byproduct, includes a school calendar and jokes, or things that are as an aside to schoolwork. Local mines would have entire page advertisements and photographs of mine entrances are featured throughout the yearbook.