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Regional Ser.: Thunder in the Mountains : The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 by Lon Savage (1990, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-100822954265
ISBN-139780822954262
eBay Product ID (ePID)635737
Product Key Features
Number of Pages216 Pages
Publication NameThunder in the Mountains : the West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLabor & Industrial Relations, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, Labor
Publication Year1990
FeaturesReprint
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorLon Savage
SeriesRegional Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN89-039087
Reviews"The lively narrative, written by a former professional journalist and first published in 1985, is preceded by an explanatory introduction by John Williams." --International Review of Social History, "A colorful account of the open warfare in West Virginia's dark and bloody coal fields in 1920 and 1921. . . . This is a solidly researched account of the story." -- Library Journal, "The lively narrative, written by a former professional journalist and first published in 1985, is preceded by an explanatory introduction by John Williams." -International Review of Social History, A colorful account of the open warfare in West Virginia's dark and bloody coal fields in 1920 and 1921. . . . This is a solidly researched account of the story., The lively narrative, written by a former professional journalist and first published in 1985, is preceded by an explanatory introduction by John Williams.
Grade FromNinth Grade
IllustratedYes
Grade ToTwelfth Grade
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThe West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps had been dispatched against striking miners. The origins of this civil war were in the Draconian rule of the coal companies over the fiercely proud miners of Appalachia. It began in the small railroad town of Matewan when Mayor C. C. Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield sided with striking miners against agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who attempted to evict the miners from company-owned housing. During a street battle, Mayor Testerman, seven Baldwin-Felts agents, and two miners were shot to death. Hatfield became a folk hero to Appalachia. But he, like Testerman, was to be a martyr. The next summer, Baldwin-Felts agents assassinated him and his best friend, Ed Chambers, as their wives watched, on the steps of the courthouse in Welch, accelerating the miners' rebellion into open warfare. Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21., Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21., The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the US Army Air Corps had been dispatched against striking miners. The civil war began in the small railroad town of Matewan when Mayor C. C. Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield sided with striking miners against agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who attempted to evict the miners from company-owned housing. Thunder in the Mountains was the first book-length account of this crisis in American industrial relations and governance, much neglected in historical accounts.
LC Classification NumberHD5325.M63
