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The smokeless coal fields of West Virginia : a brief history / W.P. Tams, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tams, W. P., Jr. (William Purviance), 1883-1977.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coal mines and mining--West Virginia.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (114 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed. / introduction by Ronald D. Eller.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History first appeared in 1963, a little book by a man with no training as either a writer or a historian.Since then, this volume has become an essential sourcebook, consulted and quoted in nearly every study of coal field history.
- Contents:
- Cover; Content; Introduction by Ronald D. Eller; Preface; Introduction; Location and Early Development; Finances and Organization; Work in the Mines at the Turn of th Century; Life in the Coal Fields at the Turn of the Century; The Gulf Smokeless Coal Company; Personalities in the Smokeless Coal Fields; Place Names in the Smokeless Coal Fields
- Notes:
- Originally published: Morgantown : West Virginia University Library, 1963.
- Maps on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-933202-75-0
- OCLC:
- 923514515
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