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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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Series: | West Virginia and Appalachia.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |