The Coal Industry of the State of West Virginia
Title | The Coal Industry of the State of West Virginia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Coal miners |
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A Study of the West Virginia Coal Industry and Ways to Help it
Title | A Study of the West Virginia Coal Industry and Ways to Help it PDF eBook |
Author | West Virginia. Legislature. Joint Committee on Government and Finance. Subcommittee on Coal Mining |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Coal trade |
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Annual Report, Coal Mines in the State of West Virginia, U.S.A., for the Year Ending ...
Title | Annual Report, Coal Mines in the State of West Virginia, U.S.A., for the Year Ending ... PDF eBook |
Author | West Virginia. Department of Mines |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Mines and mineral resources |
ISBN |
McDowell County Coal and Rail
Title | McDowell County Coal and Rail PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Chatman |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1467121924 |
Over 200 fascinating postcard images show early coal mining in McDowell County and how it progressed throughout the years. Coal was discovered in McDowell County, located in the Billion Dollar Coalfield of southern West Virginia, in 1748, but it was not explored or mined until the early 1800s. Mill Creek Coal & Coke Company shipped the first railroad car of coal in March 1883 via the Norfolk & Western Railway. By the early 1900s, hundreds of mining companies dotted the county's landscape. The coal from McDowell County fueled the nation's home heating and steelmaking businesses and both world wars. As the coal industry developed, the local population grew; by 1950, the county had grown from a few hundred people to more than 100,000. .
The Coal Trap
Title | The Coal Trap PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Van Nostrand |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2022-07-21 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108830587 |
A cautionary tale for the many other jurisdictions around the world that are resisting the transition to clean energy resources.
The Devil Is Here in These Hills
Title | The Devil Is Here in These Hills PDF eBook |
Author | James Green |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 447 |
Release | 2015-02-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0802192092 |
“The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising 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 fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Coal Mining Laws ...
Title | Coal Mining Laws ... PDF eBook |
Author | Colorado |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Mines and mining |
ISBN |