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Coal in Our Veins

Erin Ann Thomas · 2012

103,667 words · about 7 h 16 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN) · Thomas, Erin Ann (2012), Coal in Our Veins, open access publisher - licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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About this book

Author
Erin Ann Thomas
Language
English
Published
2012
Length
103,667 words · about 7 h 16 min
Sections
4 reader sections
Text
Digital text
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

 

Contents (4)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Contents about 1 min
  3. Introduction about 6 h 46 min
  4. Afterword about 28 min

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Front matter

Erin Ann Thomas

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Contents

Introduction 1 A Miner’s Lamp 1 Cymyru 2 A Welsh Coal Miner 13 3 The First Loco to Run on Rails 4 ‘Two Miners’ Sons 36 5 The Paths of Blind Horses 42 Carbon County 6 The Rattle of Dead Men’s Skin 7 Zeph and Maud 69 8 The Castle Gate 74 9 The Striking Years 81 10 Get the Men Out 89 11 Leaving Carbon 98 12 Ghost Towns 105 Bridge 13 A Historical Gap 119 West Virginia 14 The Little White Chapel 133 15 One Who Escaped 143 16 A Memorial 147 17 Mountains Made Low 156 18 String-Town Appalachia 164 19 Squatter on a Gold Mine 177

Washington, D.C. 20 The Energy Future of America 187 21 A Drop in the Bucket 201 22 Yes to Electric Reliability 207

Coda 23 In the Bowels of the Earth 223 24 The Last Deep Coal Mine in Wales 237 25 The Winds of Change 245

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