Coal in our Veins : A Personal Journey / / Erin Ann Thomas.
In Coal in Our Veins, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2012. ©2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A Miner's Lamp
- Cymyru
- A Welsh Coal Miner
- The First Loco to Run on Rails
- Two Miners' Sons
- The Paths of Blind Horses
- Carbon County
- The Rattle of Dead Men's Skin
- Zeph and Maud
- The Castle Gate
- The Striking Years
- Get the Men Out
- Leaving Carbon
- Ghost Towns
- Bridge
- A Historical Gap
- West Virginia
- The Little White Chapel
- One Who Escaped
- A Memorial
- Mountains Made Low
- String-Town Appalachia
- Squatter on a Gold Mine
- Washington, D.C.
- The Energy Future of America
- A Drop in the Bucket
- Yes to Electric Reliability
- Coda
- In the Bowels of the Earth
- The Last Deep Coal Mine in Wales
- The Winds of Change
- Afterword.