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Coal Mining History
A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law & Resistance During the Pittston Coal
Strike of 1989-1990, The miners' strike against Pittston Coal in
1989?990, which spread throughout southwestern Virginia, southern West
Virginia, and eastern Kentucky, was one of the most important strikes in
the history of American labor, and, as Richard Brisbin observes, "one of
the longest and largest incidents of civil disorder and civil disobedience
in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century.
All Nine Alive: The Dramatic Mine Rescue That Inspired and Cheered a
Nation
An Analysis of Underground Coal Mine Fire Incidents in
the United States from 1978 Through 1992
Anthracite Heritage Museum, Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton
focuses on the people, labor, and culture of coal mining and related
industries in eastern Pennsylvania. The museum displays objects and images
of the everyday life of coal miners and their families, including exhibits
of household furnishings, religious artifacts, and work implements and
machinery.....
Black Diamonds! Black Gold!
- The Saga of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company.....
Blocton: The History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town
- "Blocton" is a beautiful, 8 1/2" x 11" cloth bound book with
240 photographs, most previously unpublished. The saga begins with two
entrepreneurs, Truman Aldrich and Cornelius Cadle, who created the Cahaba
Coal Mining Company and pushed a railroad eight miles into the wilderness
of Bibb County, Alabama to tap thick veins of coal deep underground.
There, they built the town called Blocton. Beside the company town rose
West Blocton. The social fabric of the two communities was extraordinary
containing a tapestry of nationalities from Italians to Russian Jews,
Slavs, and Welsh.
The Buffalo Creek
Disaster
- How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History
Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won.
Coal, Class, and Color
- Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32 (Blacks in the New World)....
Coal Dust in Their Blood
- The Work and Lives of Underground Coal Miners (Ams Studies in
Anthropology. No. 6)....
Coal Town
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The Life and Times of Dawson, New Mexico.....
Coal towns of West Virginia
: A pictorial recollection : Fayette, Raleigh, Wyoming, Boone, Logan,
Mercer - Travel with Stevenson to the original sites of forty-seven
West Virginia coal towns, many of which are now not even a name on a
map....
Exploring Buried Buxton: Archaeology of an Abandoned Iowa Coal
Mining Town With a Large Black Population (Iowa Heritage Collection).
Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region (Images of America:
Pennsylvania) - A remarkable look into the history of the
Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania through an extraordinary pictorial
tour guide. This book is a journey into a world that was once very
familiar. These vintage photographs of collieries, breakers, miners,
drivers, and breaker boys illuminate the dark of the anthracite mines.
The pictures of miners, roof falls, mules, and equipment deep
underground tell the story of the hard lives lived around the hard
coal. Pictures captures scenes of the coal miners when their faces
were blackened by coal and when helmet lamps lit by fire that are no
longer parts of the everyday lives of miners in the region.
Feldstein's Historic Coal Mining and Railroads of Allegany County,
Maryland, The book consists of 135 historic Allegany County,
Maryland coal mining and railroad related photographs. These are
primarily from the early 1900's. Accompanying each depiction is an
historical narrative with facts, figures, dates and other
information.....
Fire in the Hole
- Miners and Managers in the
American Coal Industry...
King Coal : A Pictorial Heritage of West Virginia Coal Mining.....
Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster - On October
23, 1958, gases from deep within the earth shot skyward, causing entire
floors of rock to rise instantly in a coal mine in Springhill, Nova
Scotia, trapping 174 men underground. Seventy-five miners never made it
out alive. Miraculously, two small groups of miners survived the
initial...
Monacans and Miners: Native American and Coal Mining Communities in
Appalachia.
Necessary Fraud: Progressive Reform and Utah Coal (Legal History of North
America, Vol 3) A legal history of land fraud in Utah's
turn-of-the-century coal fields, intertwining national, regional, and
local events and reflecting the era of progressive reform. Traces a series
of coal-land cases as Congress struggled to reform the Coal Land Act of
1873, describing the collusion between railroads and coal companies,
President T. Roosevelt's involvement, and the actions of the State of Utah
and the Mormon Church....
Pennsylvania Mining
Families - The Search for Dignity in the
Coalfields...
Regulating Danger
- The Struggle for Mine Safety in the Rocky Mountain Coal Industry.....
Southern Illinois Coal
: A Portfolio
- Features 78 vivid black-and-white photos that record
the (now disappearing) heritage of the coal mining industry in southern
Illinois....
Tales of the Mine Country brings back the forgotten and overlooked
issues of a dramatic American industry. McKeever's rich memories glow like
a hearth-fire, warm with the spirit of Pennsylvania and its people who
went below.....
Tennessee's Coal Creek War
- Another Fight for Freedom.....
The Kingdom of Coal
: Work, Enterprise & Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields - A well-documented history of a giant American
industry and a fascinating story of the unique regional culture that
it spawned.....
The United Mine Workers
of America - A Model of Industrial Solidarity?..
The Best-Dressed Miners -
life and labor in the Maryland coal region,
1835-1910.....
The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History
To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal
Mining in Appalachia
- Surface coal mining has had a dramatic impact on the
Appalachian economy and ecology since World War II, exacerbating the
region's chronic unemployment and destroying much of its natural
environment. Here, Chad Montrie examines the twentieth-century
movement to outlaw surface mining in Appalachia, tracing popular
opposition to the industry from its inception through the growth of a
militant movement that engaged in acts of civil disobedience and
industrial sabotage. Both comprehensive and comparative, To Save the
Land and People chronicles the story of surface mining opposition in
the whole region, from Pennsylvania to Alabama.
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