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Thunder in the Mountains : The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 by Lon Savage (1990, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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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.

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-10
0822954265
ISBN-13
9780822954262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
635737

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Author
Lon Savage
Publication Name
Thunder in the Mountains : the West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Publication Year
1990
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
216 Pages

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Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hd5325.M63
Grade from
Ninth Grade
Grade to
Twelfth Grade
Edition Description
Reprint
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, "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
Copyright Date
1990
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Labor & Industrial Relations, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Labor
Lccn
89-039087
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Political Science

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by xmaif4Jul 04, 2019
If you want action and intrigue....
This is the little known story of the West Virginia mine wars of the early 1920s. The 1987 movie MATEWAN is based off incidents described in the book. This book has everything you would want in an action novel but it's all true! From the widow marrying the attorney who defended her husband at trial before his murder to the US Army Air Corps dispatching bombers to attach US citizens, this book details all of the intrigue, action and drama that was 1920s West Virginia life.
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by fabricmuseumJan 04, 2021
Good view of an early labor problem in context
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by 14-26Mar 13, 2009
EXCELLENT BOOK
this is an honestly written example of the historic struggle between union activist and management.... an excellent history lesson and story about a forgotten part of our heritage....

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