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Transnational West Virginina
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ISBN: 1935978306 9781935978305 Year: 2011 Publisher: Morgantown

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The Industrialist and the Mountaineer
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ISBN: 1943665524 1943665532 9781943665532 1943665516 9781943665518 Year: 2017 Publisher: Morgantown West Virginia University Press

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"In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis's book uses this largely forgotten episode as a window into contests over political, environmental, and legal change in turn-of-the-century Appalachia"-- "In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis's book uses this largely forgotten episode as a window into contests over political, environmental, and legal change in turn-of-the-century Appalachia. The Eastham-Thompson feud pitted a former Confederate against a member of the new business elite who was, as a northern Republican, his cultural and political opposite. For Lewis, their clash was one flashpoint in a larger phenomenon central to US history in the second half of the nineteenth century: the often violent imposition of new commercial and legal regimes over holdout areas stretching from Appalachia to the trans-Missouri West. Taking a ground-level view of these so-called "wars of incorporation," Lewis's powerful microhistory shows just how strongly local communities guarded traditional relationships to natural resources. Modernizers sought to convict Eastham of murder, but juries drawn from the traditionalist population refused to comply. Although the resisters won the courtroom battle, the modernizers eventually won the war for control of the state's timber frontier"--


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The rebel in the red jeep
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ISBN: 194366563X 9781943665631 9781943665617 1943665613 1943665621 Year: 2017 Publisher: Morgantown

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"This biography recounts a century of accomplishments, from Hechler's introduction of innovative teaching methods at major universities, to his work as a speechwriter and researcher for President Harry Truman, and finally to his time representing West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives and as the secretary of state. In West Virginia, where he resisted mainstream political ideology, Hechler was the principal architect behind the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 and constantly battled big coal, strip mining, and fellow politicians alike. He and his signature red jeep remain a fixture in West Virginia. Since 2004, Hechler has campaigned against mountaintop removal mining. He was arrested for trespassing during a protest in 2009 at the age of 94."--Provided by publisher.


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Riding on comets
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ISBN: 9781940425535 1940425530 9781940425511 1940425514 9781940425528 1940425522 Year: 2015 Publisher: Morgantown Vandalia Press

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"Riding on Comets is the true story of an only child growing up in a working-class family during the 1950s and '60s. As the family storyteller, Cat Pleska whispers and shouts about her life growing up around savvy, strong women and hard-working, hard-drinking men. Unlike many family stories set within Appalachia, this story provides an uncommon glimpse into this region: not coal, but an aluminum plant; not hollers, but small-town America; not hillbillies, but a hard-working family with traditional values. From the dinner table, to the back porch, to the sprawling countryside, Cat Pleska reveals the sometimes tender, sometimes frightening education of a child who listens at the knees of these giants. She mimics and learns every nuance, every rhythm--how they laugh, smoke, cuss, fight, love, and tell stories--as she unwittingly prepares to carry their tales forward, their words and actions forever etched in her mind. And finally, she discovers a life story of her own"--


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Welsh Americans
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ISBN: 1469605813 0807887900 9780807887905 9781469605814 9780807832202 0807832200 9798893133219 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of acculturation. In the first history of this exceptional community, Ronald Lewis explores how Welsh immigrants made a significant contribution to the development of the American coal industry and how their rapid and successful assimilation affected Welsh American culture.Lewis describes how Welsh immigr

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Coal mines and mining --- Coal miners --- Immigrants --- Welsh Americans --- Coal mining --- Collieries --- Energy industries --- Mines and mineral resources --- Colliers (Coal miners) --- Miners --- Ethnology --- Welsh --- Social aspects --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Ethnic identity. --- Cultural assimilation. --- West Virginia --- Pennsylvania --- Middle West --- American Midwest --- Central States --- Central States Region --- Midwest --- Midwest States --- Midwestern States --- North Central Region --- North Central States --- Mississippi River Valley --- Northwest, Old --- Pensilvania --- Staat Pennsylvania --- Štatu Pennsylvanie --- Stanu Pennsylvania --- Stato di Pennsylvania --- Vysomene Valstijos Pennsylvania --- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania --- Ḳommonṿelṭ of Pensilṿeynia --- Pennsylvaani --- Pennsilfaani --- Keystone State --- Quaker State --- ペンシルベニア州 --- Penshirubenia-shū --- ペンシルベニア --- Penshirubenia --- ペンシルヴェイニア州 --- Penshiruveinia-shū --- ペンシルヴェイニア --- Penshiruveinia --- ペンシルヴァニア州 --- Penshiruvania-shū --- ペンシルヴァニア --- Penshiruvania --- פנסילבניה --- Pensilvanyah --- Province of Pennsilvania --- Pennsilvania --- Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex upon Delaware --- W. Va. --- WV --- West Va. --- W.V. (West Virginia) --- W. Virg. --- State of West Virginia --- Wes-Virginië --- Wescht Virginia --- Virchinia Occidental --- Estato de Virchinia Occidental --- Virginia du Ponant --- Virxinia Occidental --- Kuarahyresẽ Virginia --- Qärbi Virciniya --- Штат Заходняя Вірджынія --- Shtat Zakhodni︠a︡i︠a︡ Virdz︠h︡ynii︠a︡ --- Заходняя Вірджынія --- Zakhodni︠a︡i︠a︡ Virdz︠h︡ynii︠a︡ --- Западна Вирджиния --- Zapadna Virdzhinii︠a︡ --- Щат Западна Вирджиния --- Shtat Zapadna Virdzhinii︠a︡ --- Zapadna Virginia --- Virginia ar C'hornaoueg --- Virgínia de l'Oest --- Virgínia Occidental --- Анăç Вирджини --- Anăś Virdzhini --- Virginia --- Virginia (Reorganized government : 1861-1863) --- Ethnic relations.

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