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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Discovering and Marketing Coal : 1815-1859 -- Mining and Mapping Coal : 1859-1883 -- Surveying and Developing the Field : 1883-1910 -- Coal Towns : 1881-1919 -- Convict Leasing : 1872-1927 -- Welfare Capitalism : 1915-1933 -- Unionism : 1878-1935 -- Decline and Demise : 1929-1976. |
| Summary |
Diamonds in the Rough reconstructs the historical moment that defined the Cahaba Coal Field, a mineral-rich area that stretches across sixty-seven miles and four counties of central Alabama. Combining existing written sources with oral accounts and personal recollections, James Sanders Day's Diamonds in the Rough describes the numerous coal operations in this region-later overshadowed by the rise of the Birmingham district and the larger Warrior Field to the north. Many of the capitalists are the same: Truman H. Aldrich, Henry F. |
| Local Note |
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Browne, William Phineas, 1804-1869.
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Browne, William Phineas, 1804-1869. |
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Browne, William Phineas, 1804-1869. |
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Coal mines and mining -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History -- 19th century.
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Coal mines and mining. |
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Alabama. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Coal mines and mining -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Coalfields -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History.
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Coalfields. |
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Company towns -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History.
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Company towns. |
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Businessmen -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- Biography.
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Businessmen. |
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Biographies.
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Cahaba River Region (Ala.) -- History, Local.
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Cahaba River Region (Ala.) -- Social conditions.
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Cahaba River Region (Ala.) -- Economic conditions.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780817317942 0817317945 (DLC) 2012044797 |
| ISBN |
0817386742 (electronic book) |
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9780817386740 (electronic book) |
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9780817317942 (trade cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0817317945 (trade cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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