TY - BOOK ID - 77896570 TI - Diamonds in the rough PY - 2013 SN - 0817386742 9780817386740 9780817317942 0817317945 PB - Tuscaloosa The University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Businessmen KW - Company towns KW - Coalfields KW - Coal mines and mining KW - Business men KW - Businesspeople KW - Cities and towns KW - Industrial relations KW - Coal fields KW - Fields, Coal KW - Mines and mineral resources KW - Coal mining KW - Collieries KW - Energy industries KW - History. KW - History KW - Browne, William Phineas, KW - Cahaba River Region (Ala.) KW - Economic conditions. KW - Social conditions. KW - History, Local. KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896570 AB - Diamonds in the Rough reconstructs the historical moment that defined the Cahaba Coal Field, a mineral-rich area that stretches across sixty-seven miles and four counties of central Alabama. Combining existing written sources with oral accounts and personal recollections, James Sanders Day's Diamonds in the Rough describes the numerous coal operations in this region-later overshadowed by the rise of the Birmingham district and the larger Warrior Field to the north. Many of the capitalists are the same: Truman H. Aldrich, Henry F. ER -