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G.C. ""Red"" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic pe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, G. C. (Green C.), 1913-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1985.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jones, G. C. > (Green C.), > 1913-
United Mine Workers of America.
United Mine Workers of America > History.
Erlebnisbericht
Bergbau
Autobiografie
Manners and customs.
Economic history.
Coal miners > Labor unions > Organizing.
Coal miners.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Mineurs de charbon > Kentucky > Harlan (Comte) > Biographies.
Coal miners > Labor unions > Organizing > Kentucky > Harlan County > History.
Coal miners > Kentucky > Harlan County > Biography.
Kentucky
Kentucky > Harlan County.
Harlan County (Ky.) > Social life and customs.
Harlan County (Ky.) > Economic conditions.
Harlan County (Ky.) > Biography.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:G.C. ""Red"" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of ""Bloody Harlan, "" and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9780813143491

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