The road to Blair Mountain : saving a mine wars battlefield from king coal /

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"In 1921 Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia was the site of the country's bloodiest armed insurrection since the Civil War, a battle pitting miners led by Frank Keeney against agents of the coal barons intent on quashing organized labor. It was the largest labor uprising in US histor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Keeney, Charles Belmont (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Historic sites > Conservation and restoration > West Virginia.
Environmentalism > West Virginia.
Lieux historiques > Conservation et restauration > Virginie-Occidentale.
Environnementalisme > Virginie-Occidentale.
Environmentalism.
Historic sites > Conservation and restoration.
Blair Mountain (W. Va.)
West Virginia > Blair Mountain.
West Virginia.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Fighting for a Battlefield
  • 2. Marching into Blair
  • 3. Camp Branch
  • 4. The Northwest Flank
  • 5. Identity Reclamation
  • 6. The Long Road
  • Epilogue: Appalachian Anthropocene
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Index

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