
The Road to Blair Mountain
Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
Charles B. Keeney(Autor*in)
West Virginia University Press
Erschienen am 30. Januar 2021
Buch
Hardcover
300 Seiten
978-1-949199-84-0 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
In 1921 Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia was the site of the country's bloodiest armed insurrection since the Civil War, a battle pitting miners led by Frank Keeney against agents of the coal barons intent on quashing organized labor. It was the largest labor uprising in US history. Ninety years later, the site became embroiled in a second struggle, as activists came together to fight the coal industry, state government, and the military- industrial complex in a successful effort to save the battlefield-sometimes dubbed 'labor's Gettysburg'-from destruction by mountaintop removal mining.
The Road to Blair Mountain is the moving and sometimes harrowing story of Charles Keeney's fight to save this irreplaceable landscape. Beginning in 2011, Keeney-a historian and great-grandson of Frank Keeney-led a nine-year legal battle to secure the site's placement on the National Register of Historic Places. His book tells a David-and-Goliath tale worthy of its own place in West Virginia history. A success story for historic preservation and environmentalism, it serves as an example of how rural, grassroots organizations can defeat the fossil fuel industry.
The Road to Blair Mountain is the moving and sometimes harrowing story of Charles Keeney's fight to save this irreplaceable landscape. Beginning in 2011, Keeney-a historian and great-grandson of Frank Keeney-led a nine-year legal battle to secure the site's placement on the National Register of Historic Places. His book tells a David-and-Goliath tale worthy of its own place in West Virginia history. A success story for historic preservation and environmentalism, it serves as an example of how rural, grassroots organizations can defeat the fossil fuel industry.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Morganstown
USA
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
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11 illustrations
Maße
Höhe: 209 mm
Breite: 132 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
487 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-949199-84-0 (9781949199840)
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Charles B. Keeney is an assistant professor of history at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College. The author of two books, he served as president of Friends of Blair Mountain and was a founding member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum.
Inhalt
Preface
1. Fighting for a Battlefield
2. Marching into Blair
3. Camp Branch
4. The Northwest Flank
5. Identity Reclamation
6. The Long Road
Epilogue: Appalachian Anthropocene
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Index
1. Fighting for a Battlefield
2. Marching into Blair
3. Camp Branch
4. The Northwest Flank
5. Identity Reclamation
6. The Long Road
Epilogue: Appalachian Anthropocene
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Index