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Matewan Before the Massacre : politics, coal, and the roots of conflict in a West Virginia mining community
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- [Rebecca J. Bailey]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781935978039, 1933202289, 9781933202280, 1935978039
- OCLC
- ocn801665496
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral)-- West Virginia University, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-288) and index.
- English
- Front Cover; West Virginia and Appalachia Series Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: May 19, 1920; Notes; ""Bleeding Mingo"": 1895-1911; Notes; The Progressive Era?; Notes; The Williamson-Thacker Coalfield Falls Behind; Notes; World War I and the Rise of the Class Tensions; Notes; The Massacre: Before & After; Notes; Conclusion: The Matewan Myth; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Images; Union Felief Day in Matewan; Matewan Street Scene, 1920; Matewan Chief of Police Sid Hatfield; The dead Baldwin-Felts Agents; State Senator Hiram S. White; Henry Drury Hatfield
- Figure 1.4 Thacker Coal & Coke company town, ca. 1908Dingess, West Virginia; Eluhi Boggs, 1914; G.T. Blankenship; John J. Cornwell; A mining camp near Williamson, 1913; District 17 leaders during the Williamson-Thacker Strike; The Glenalum Payroll Robbery; Wells Goddykoontz, Williamson Republican and sometimes Hatfield Ally; A Mingo County Truck Mine; John L. Lewis; Samuel B. Montgomery; Ephraim F. Morgan; Paul Grosscup; Mingo County Republican Party Chairman and State Senator, M.Z. White; The Matewan Massacre defendants, ca. 1921; The Lick Creek Tent Colony, ca. 1922; Maps
- Southern West Virginia Anti-Union ""Monolith""Original Logan County; The N&W Ohio Extension; County Seat Contenders; Political Districts 1895-1920; Mingo County, 1920; The Ohio Extension of the N&W Railroad and the Guyandot Coal Land Association, ca. 1892; The Six Coalfields of Southern West Virginia; Tables; The Republican Factions of Mingo County, 1908-1920; Population of Mingo, Logan, and McDowell Counties, 1890-1920; Tri-County Production Comparison, 1895-1922; A Comparison in the Number of Pick and Machine Miners in Mingo County, 1898 to 1910
- Comparison of Land Values in Mingo, Logan, and McDowell Counties, 1900-1910Town Growth and Decline in Mingo County, 1891-1896; Mingo County Towns that Had Not Existed in 1891 and their Populations in 1895-1896; Democratic Factions in Mingo County, 1912-1916; 1916 Republican Primary Election Precinct Officers Appointed by Greenway Hatfield; The Impact of Federal Control on the Coal Industry in Mingo County, 1917-1918; The Impact of Federal Control of the Coal Industry in Logan County, 1917-1918; The Impact of Federal Control on the Coal Industry in McDowell County, 1917-1918
- Population Growth of Mingo County's African-American Community, 1900-1920Comparison of the Hungarian Population in Mingo, Logan, and McDowell Counties, 1910-1920; Comparison of Average Wage and Coal Prices in Mingo County, 1917-1919; Back Cover