IRONWOOD — In 1926, Ironwood was defined by its mines. Eighteen headframes dominated the barren landscape, and hundreds of men worked more than 1,000 feet below ground. They rode into the darkness in wooden cages and returned to the surface caked in the red dust of iron ore. “They put their lives on the line every day,” local historian Thomas Kangas said Saturday night at the Pabst Mine Cave-in Ce...
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