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The Industrialist and the Mountaineer : The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier /

In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis's book uses this largely forgotten episode as a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:West Virginia and Appalachia.
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