Cannel Coal Oil Days : A Novel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maher, Theophile.

Contributor:

Watts, Edward.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press Aug. 2021

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"A semiautobiographical local color novel, written in 1887 and discovered in 2018, about the coal oil manufacturing industry and the coming of the Civil War to the region, set between 1859 and 1861 in western Virginia. The novel's protagonist, a mining engineer, works closely with a Black family to organize the local mountain folk into a Union militia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Cannel Coal Oil and the Creole Cosmopolitan

Editorial Note

Cannel Coal Oil Days

Chapter 1. At Newark, Ohio

Chapter 2. From Newark to Kanawha

Chapter 3. Up the Elk River to the Landing

Chapter 4. Day of Rest at the Landing

Chapter 5. Mismanagement at the Oil Works

Chapter 6. Radical Improvements

Chapter 7. Husband, Wife, and Children Together Again

Chapter 8. Loyalty Tested

Appendix A. "Made Union Flag: A Story of the Civil War"

Appendix B. "A Flag That Saved a County to the Union"

Appendix C. Obituary of Sarah Landis Maher

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781952271137

1952271134

OCLC:

1253353084