Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia M- 0822954265, paperback, Lon Savage
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- Book Title
- Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia M- 0822954265, paperb
- Artist
- Savage, Lon
- ISBN
- 9780822954262
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-10
0822954265
ISBN-13
9780822954262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
635737
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Publication Name
Thunder in the Mountains : the West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21
Language
English
Subject
Labor & Industrial Relations, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, Labor
Publication Year
1990
Features
Reprint
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Series
Regional Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
89-039087
Reviews
"The lively narrative, written by a former professional journalist and first published in 1985, is preceded by an explanatory introduction by John Williams." --International Review of Social History, "A colorful account of the open warfare in West Virginia's dark and bloody coal fields in 1920 and 1921. . . . This is a solidly researched account of the story." -- Library Journal, "The lively narrative, written by a former professional journalist and first published in 1985, is preceded by an explanatory introduction by John Williams." -International Review of Social History, A colorful account of the open warfare in West Virginia's dark and bloody coal fields in 1920 and 1921. . . . This is a solidly researched account of the story., The lively narrative, written by a former professional journalist and first published in 1985, is preceded by an explanatory introduction by John Williams.
Grade From
Ninth Grade
Illustrated
Yes
Grade To
Twelfth Grade
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps had been dispatched against striking miners. The origins of this civil war were in the Draconian rule of the coal companies over the fiercely proud miners of Appalachia. It began in the small railroad town of Matewan when Mayor C. C. Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield sided with striking miners against agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who attempted to evict the miners from company-owned housing. During a street battle, Mayor Testerman, seven Baldwin-Felts agents, and two miners were shot to death. Hatfield became a folk hero to Appalachia. But he, like Testerman, was to be a martyr. The next summer, Baldwin-Felts agents assassinated him and his best friend, Ed Chambers, as their wives watched, on the steps of the courthouse in Welch, accelerating the miners' rebellion into open warfare. Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21., Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21., The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the US Army Air Corps had been dispatched against striking miners. The civil war began in the small railroad town of Matewan when Mayor C. C. Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield sided with striking miners against agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who attempted to evict the miners from company-owned housing. Thunder in the Mountains was the first book-length account of this crisis in American industrial relations and governance, much neglected in historical accounts.
LC Classification Number
HD5325.M63
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