| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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"--Destruction by mountaintop removal mining. A success story for historic preservation and environmentalism, it serves as an example of how rural, grassroots organizations can defeat the fossil fuel industry"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- West Virginia.
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Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration. |
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West Virginia. |
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Environmentalism -- West Virginia.
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Environmentalism. |
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Blair Mountain (W. Va.)
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West Virginia -- Blair Mountain. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Keeney, Charles Belmont. Road to Blair Mountain. First edition. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021 9781949199840 1949199843 (DLC) 2020022380 (OCoLC)1142525107 |
| ISBN |
9781949199864 (electronic book) |
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194919986X (electronic book) |
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9781949199840 |
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1949199843 |
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9781949199857 |
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1949199851 |
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