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Author
Publisher
Westview Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history - the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and lawless exploitation, picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state. For ten days the miners fought a pitched battle...
102) Sky of stone
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Sonny" Hickman returns to Coalwood, West Virginia after a year in college to find his father even more distant. Sonny takes a job in the mine and moves in among the miners.
104) You wouldn't want to be a 19th-century coal miner in England!: a dangerous job you'd rather not have
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2007 [i.e., 2006]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation college student turned college professor, comes a passionate commentary on these themes in a family memoir set in West Virginia coal country. 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym is the story of the author's father,...
Author
Series
Century trilogy ; 1
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were 50,000 mine workers, the nation's largest labor union, and the legendary "miners' angel," Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked...
112) The mine wars
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the 20th century, coal was the engine of American industrial progress. Nearly three quarters of a million men across the country spent ten or twelve hours a day underground in coal mines. The Mine Wars brings to life the struggle that turned the coalfields of southern West Virginia into a blood-soaked war zone where basic constitutional rights and freedoms were violently contested.
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