Written in blood : courage and corruption in the Appalachian war of extraction / edited by Wess Harris

Published: Oakland, CA : PM Press ; Gay, West Virginia : Appalachian Community Services, [2017]
Copyright Date: ©2017
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Additional Creators: Harris, Wess

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Contents

Front Cover; Praise for Written in Blood; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Esau in the Coalfields: Owing Our Souls to the Company Store -- Michael and Carrie Kline with Joy and Chuck Lynn; Truth Buried -- Goldenseal; Behind the Coal Curtain: Efforts to Publish the Esau Story in West Virginia -- Michael Kline; Scratching the Surface -- Wess Harris; The Rented Girl: A Closer Look at Women in the Coalfields -- Michael Kline; The Memo -- Larry Layne as told to Michael and Carrie Kline; Images Past and Present; West Virginia's Gilded History -- Tom Rhule., Appalachian Scholar -- Walter LaneBattle of Blair Mountain Pamphlet -- Logan District Mines Information Bureau; Victory on Blair Mountain! -- Wess Harris; Baseball and Treason -- Bill Kovarik; John L. Lewis: Forty Years of Upset Stomachs -- William C. Blizzard; An Open Letter -- Cecil Roberts to Randall Reid-Smith; Cecil Roberts Shares His Story -- Michael Kline; Hidden Coffins Unearth Needed History -- Fr. John S. Rausch; When Miners March-A Review -- Theresa Burriss., and Written in Blood: The Impact of Widows and Orphans on the Passage of Kentucky Coal Mine Safety Legislation -- Attorney Tony Oppegard as told to Michael KlineJack and the Coal Giant -- Jack Spadaro as told to Michael and Carrie Kline; Modern Battles -- Nathan J. Fetty; Which Path, Appalachia? -- Carrie Kline; Connecting the Dots -- Wess Harris; Come All You Coal Miners -- Sarah Ogan Gunning; Index; About the Editor.

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9781629634531 (electronic bk.)
1629634530 (electronic bk.)
9781629634456
162963445X

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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