Thunder in the mountains : the West Virginia mine war, 1920-21 / Lon Savage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savage, Lon, 1928- author.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in social and labor history.

Pittsburgh series in social and labor history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal Strike, W. Va., 1920-1921.

West Virginia.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.

Summary:

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 r.

Contents:

Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgments; 1. On to Mingo

2. Everyone called him Sid

3. The Battle of Matewan; 4. We have organized all the camps

5. The most complete deadlock of any industrial struggle

6. It's good to have friends

7. Our citizens are being shot down like rats

8. ... to clean up Mingo County

9. You saw nothing wrong in that?

10. Don't shoot him any more!

11. There can be no peace

12. We'll hang Don Chafin to a sour apple tree!

13. No armed mob will cross Logan County

14. It's your real Uncle Sam

15. By God, we're goin' through16. We wouldn't revolt against the national guv'ment

17. The thugs are coming

18. There was a different feeling

19. I, Warren G. Harding ... do hereby command

20. Bring your raincoats and machine guns

21. Bullets were hissing back and forth

22. Things slacked off after we ate

23. These strange new craft

24. The miners have withdrawn their lines

25. It was Uncle Sam did it

Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; lndex.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188) and index.

Originally published: Elliston, Va. :Northcross House, 1986.

ISBN:

9780822971429

0822971429

OCLC:

1303423430