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Gary Hollow

Author : Alex P. Schust
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gary Hollow written by Alex P. Schust and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Hollow is a social and mining history of what was at one time the largest coal operation in the world. Gary Hollow is located in McDowell County West Virginia. The book takes the reader from the time Shawnee Indians were taking captives down the Tug Fork River (1750) until United States Steel closed its mines in 1986. The book covers how the coal company's built the mines, schools, medical facilities, houses, roads, recreation facilities and other parts of the communities. It also discusses the roles immigrants had in developing the social community.

U.S. Steel and Gary, West Virginia

Author : Ronald G. Garay
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572337974
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Steel and Gary, West Virginia written by Ronald G. Garay and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is well written and meticulously documented; it will add significantly to the available literature on West Virginia’s industrial and community history. It should find a receptive audience among college and post- graduate scholars of industrial and labor history, West Virginia history, and Appalachian studies.” —John Lilly, editor, Goldenseal The company owned the houses. It owned the stores. It provided medical and governmental services. It provided practically all the jobs. Gary, West Virginia, a coal mining town in the southern part of the state, was a creation of U.S. Steel. And while the workers were not formally bound to the company, their fortunes—like that of their community—were inextricably tied to the success of U.S. Steel. Gary developed in the early twentieth century as U.S. Steel sought a new supply of raw material for its industrial operations. The rich Pocahontas coal field in remote southern West Virginia provided the carbon-rich, low-sulfur coal the company required. To house the thousands of workers it would import to mine that coal bed, U.S. Steel carved a town out of the mountain wilderness. The company was the sole reason for its existence. In this fascinating book, Ronald Garay tells the story of how industry-altering decisions made by U.S. Steel executives reverberated in the hollows of Appalachia. From the area’s industrial revolution in the early twentieth century to the peak of steel-making activity in the 1940s to the industry’s decline in the 1970s, U.S. Steel and Gary, West Virginia offers an illuminating example of how coal and steel paternalism shaped the eastern mountain region and the limited ways communities and their economies evolve. In telling the story of Gary, this volume freshly illuminates the stories of other mining towns throughout Appalachia. At once a work of passionate journalism and a cogent analysis of economic development in Appalachia, this work is a significant contribution to the scholarship on U.S. business history, labor history, and Appalachian studies. Ronald Garay, a professor emeritus of mass communication at Louisiana State University, is the author of Gordon McLendon: The Maverick of Radio and The Manship School: A History of Journalism Education at LSU.

Ramp Hollow

Author : Steven Stoll
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 080909505X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Ramp Hollow written by Steven Stoll and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia--among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America--has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common.Ramp Hollow traces the rise of the Appalachian homestead and how its self-sufficiency resisted dependence on money and the industrial society arising elsewhere in the United States--until, beginning in the nineteenth century, extractive industries kicked off a "scramble for Appalachia" that left struggling homesteaders dispossessed of their land. As the men disappeared into coal mines and timber camps, and their families moved into shantytowns or deeper into the mountains, the commons of Appalachia were, in effect, enclosed, and the fate of the region was sealed.Ramp Hollow takes a provocative look at Appalachia, and the workings of dispossession around the world, by upending our notions about progress and development. Stoll ranges widely from literature to history to economics in order to expose a devastating process whose repercussions we still feel today.

A Guide to Historic Coal Towns of the Big Sandy River Valley

Author : George D. Torok
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572332829
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Historic Coal Towns of the Big Sandy River Valley written by George D. Torok and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the historical coal towns of the Big Sandy River Valley that provides brief histories of each town, descriptions of the buildings and structures that remain, and insight into the town's residents.

To Amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Economic Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book To Amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Economic Development and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legendary Locals of McDowell County

Author : William R. Archer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467100366
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Legendary Locals of McDowell County written by William R. Archer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Virginia's most impoverished county, McDowell County, is also its richest, with reserves of mineral wealth that continue to provide the framework for modern society from Panama and Toyko to New York and Chicago. With a history cratered by triumph and tragedy, the people of McDowell County have endured unspeakable hardships and near isolation but continue to excel in a myriad of unexpectedly surprising ways. Robert Morris, "the financier of the American Revolution," went to the poor house with the belief that McDowell's mineral wealth could fuel a new nation. Jedediah Hotchkiss, the mapmaker who charted the course for Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's valley campaign, resurrected Morris's dream to rebuild the South into an industrial giant on local coal. Men of vision and means like Frederick Kimball and J.P. Morgan built fortunes on McDowell County's mineral wealth. The musical Womack family, baseball manager Charlie Manuel, comedic genius Steve Harvey, writers Kermit Hunter and Jeannette Walls, and thousands who served in all ranks of the military, many making the supreme sacrifice, are among those who have made their mark on McDowell County.

In Hollow Houses

Author : Gary A. Braunbeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780786916368
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book In Hollow Houses written by Gary A. Braunbeck and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an unspeakable evil stirs beneath the streets of the nation's capital, threatening to open a gateway to a world of terror, the members of the Hoffman Institute may hold the key to protecting Washington from the uncontrolled horror that may be unleashed. Original.

Selecting the Mercury Seven

Author : Colin Burgess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441984054
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Selecting the Mercury Seven written by Colin Burgess and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The names of the seven Mercury astronauts were announced in April 1959 amid a flurry of publicity and patriotism. This work provides biographical details of all thirty-two finalists for the seven coveted places as America's pioneering astronauts. All of the candidates were among the nation's elite pilots involved in testing new supersonic aircraft capabilities. Most had served as wartime fighter and bomber pilots; some were test pilots on top secret and sophisticated aviation projects, while others were fleet admirals, prisoners of war, and proposed pilots for spaceflight programs such as the Dyna-Soar (X-20). The names of all 32 finalists have been kept secret until very recently. "Selecting the Mercury Seven" also relates the history and difficulties behind the initial choice of candidates. The lives, motivations, military careers, and achievements of the unsuccessful twenty-five finalists are explored first in fully authorized biographies. Test pilots for the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, each man has a fascinating and very different story to tell. All thirty-two men had to endure meticulous, demeaning, and brutal week-long medical examinations at the Lovelace Clinic in New Mexico. This was followed by another torturous week at the Wright Aeromedical Laboratory in Ohio, where they were subjected to extreme fitness and physiological testing, the sole purpose of which was to sort out the Supermen from the near-supermen. The final part of the book examines the accomplishments and spaceflights of the seven successful candidates, bringing their amazing stories right up to date.

The Survey

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dragon's Reign

Author : Tim Mullins
Publisher : Tim Mullins
ISBN 13 : 1922460184
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon's Reign written by Tim Mullins and published by Tim Mullins. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing felt overly exciting for twenty-four-year-old Blake. His career as a courier driver was hardly something to brag about and although he raced cars on the weekend, life seemed to have slowed to a crawl. For his housemate and best friend James, however, life was peachy; he was about to ask out the girl of his dreams and was entering his final year at university. Social media sensation Emma Riley was living her best life: her following was booming, her sponsors were calling, and people just could not get enough of her. If only her father, Thomas, could get off her back once in a while. Will was ready for the next big step. The restaurant was booked, the evening was planned, and the diamond ring was perfect. All he hoped now was that Lila, his girlfriend of four years, would say yes. But after a mysterious fire-breathing creature leaves the Australian city of the Gold Coast in ruins, this group of strangers are forced to leave their old lives behind and band together in a fight for survival. With no way to communicate with the outside world and no help in sight, a greater mystery begins to unfold around them. What is the monster that attacked the city? Where did it come from? Is our reign, our way of life, really over? Is the dragon’s reign about to begin?

McDowell County Coal and Rail

Author : Jay Chatman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467121924
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book McDowell County Coal and Rail written by Jay Chatman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 fascinating postcard images show early coal mining in McDowell County and how it progressed throughout the years. Coal was discovered in McDowell County, located in the Billion Dollar Coalfield of southern West Virginia, in 1748, but it was not explored or mined until the early 1800s. Mill Creek Coal & Coke Company shipped the first railroad car of coal in March 1883 via the Norfolk & Western Railway. By the early 1900s, hundreds of mining companies dotted the county's landscape. The coal from McDowell County fueled the nation's home heating and steelmaking businesses and both world wars. As the coal industry developed, the local population grew; by 1950, the county had grown from a few hundred people to more than 100,000. .

The Hollow Ground

Author : Natalie S. Harnett
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466839198
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Hollow Ground written by Natalie S. Harnett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We walk on fire or air, so Daddy liked to say. Basement floors too hot to touch. Steaming green lawns in the dead of winter. Sinkholes, quick and sudden, plunging open at your feet. The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced eleven-year-old Brigid Howley and her family to seek refuge with her estranged grandparents, the formidable Gram and the black lung stricken Gramp. Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish-American clan who takes strange pleasure in the "curse" laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires. The weight of this legacy rests heavily on a new generation, when Brigid, already struggling to keep her family together, makes a grisly discovery in a long-abandoned bootleg mine shaft. In the aftermath, decades-old secrets threaten to prove just as dangerous to the Howleys as the burning, hollow ground beneath their feet. Inspired by real-life events in Centralia and Carbondale, where devastating coal mine fires irrevocably changed the lives of residents, The Hollow Ground is an extraordinary debut with an atmospheric, voice-driven narrative and an indelible sense of place. Lovers of literary fiction will find in Harnett's young, determined protagonist a character as heartbreakingly captivating as any in contemporary literature.

Death on the Picket Line

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Publisher : Mehring Books
ISBN 13 : 0929087518
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Death on the Picket Line written by and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

2014 July Vol. 7

Author : Pure Slush
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1925101371
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book 2014 July Vol. 7 written by Pure Slush and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 7 in the 2014 series - 31 writers each taking the same day of the month to weave a year-long novella

July August September 2014 - compendium

Author : Pure Slush
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1925101479
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book July August September 2014 - compendium written by Pure Slush and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-27 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third three months - 92 stories - by the 31 authors from Pure Slush's '2014 A Year in Stories'. Authors include Guilie Castillo-Oriard, Townsend Walker, Derek Osborne, Gloria Garfunkel, John Wentworth Chapin, Lynn Beighley, Andrew Stancek, Rachel Ambrose, Gill Hoffs, Susan Tepper, Jessica McHugh, Shane Simmons, Michelle Elvy, Len Kuntz, Michael Webb, James Claffey, Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz, Stephen V. Ramey, Gay Degani, Sally-Anne Macomber, Mandy Nicol, Margaret Bingel, Darryl Price, Teresa Burns Gunther, Matt Potter, Gary Percesepe, Nathaniel Tower, Kimberlee Smith, Vanessa Weibler Paris, Joanne Jagoda and h. l. nelson

McDowell County

Author : William R. “Bill” Archer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439629854
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book McDowell County written by William R. “Bill” Archer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McDowell County was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1858, two years before the start of the American Civil War. In 1863, the county was one of the 55 that separated from the Old Dominion to form West Virginia, thus earning the nickname “the Free State.” Long before this, though, McDowell County was known for its bountiful natural resources; a great geologist, Dr. Thomas Walker, touted these vast “coal lands” after his 1748–1750 exploration. Political leaders like Thomas Jefferson, who knew of the county’s mineral wealth, steered Robert Morris, financier of the American Revolution, to obtain all of McDowell County in the land speculation boom of the mid-1790s. After Morris was sent to debtor’s prison in 1799, however, his land holdings were acquired by Michael Bouvier, a cabinet maker. In the 1920s, the remains of Bouvier’s holdings were purchased by Henry Ford, the automobile tycoon. Other famous personalities associated with McDowell County include J.P. Morgan and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

Hollow Ground

Author : Stephen Marion
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312422356
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Hollow Ground written by Stephen Marion and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After leaving his hometown in Tennessee 14 years earlier, Gary must now return to deal with his adolescent son, a grandfather obsessed with documenting the town's history, and a small town being eaten alive.