The Battle of Blair Mountain

The Battle of Blair Mountain
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Publisher : Palabra
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 0465077730
ISBN-13 : 9780465077731
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Book Synopsis The Battle of Blair Mountain by : Robert Shogan

Download or read book The Battle of Blair Mountain written by Robert Shogan and published by Palabra. This book was released on 2006-07-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners-- outraged over years of brutality and exploitation-- picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state. For ten days the miners fought a pitched battle against an opposing legion of deputies, state police, and makeshift militia. Only the intervention of a Federal expeditionary force ended this undeclared war. In The Battle of Blair Mountain, Robert Shogan shows this long-neglected slice of American history to be a saga of the conflicting political, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the power structure of twentieth-century America.


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