7 edition of People of Coal Town found in the catalog.
Published
1958
by Columbia University Press in New York
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | by Herman R. Lantz with the assistance of J. S. McCrary. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | HN57 .L33 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 310 p. |
| Number of Pages | 310 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL6246467M |
| LC Control Number | 58007169 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 255975 |
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Coal’s decline has changed what Kentucky locals call the Tri-Cities of Cumberland, Benham, and Lynch. But these old mountain mining towns are counting on their natural beauty, history, and. Underground coal mining is the extraction of coal from below the surface of the earth. The coal is worked through tunnels, passages, and openings that are connected to the surface for the purpose of the removal of the coal. Coal Mining: Selected full-text books and articles. Farewell, King Coal: People of Coal Town By Herman R. Lantz.
The Buffalo Creek flood was a disaster that occurred on Febru , when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam #3, located on a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia, burst, four days after having been declared "satisfactory" by a federal mine inspector.. The resulting flood unleashed approximately million US gallons (, cubic metres; Location: Pittston Coal Company's coal . Located north of Thompson Springs, Utah is Sego Canyon, also known as Book Cliffs and Thompson Wash. This side trip off of I west of the Utah/Colorado line provides not only a peek at prehistoric rock-art, but also the remains of the old coal town of Sego, a once-thriving coal .
Excerpt from People of Coal Town The need for basic research in the natural sciences has long been recognized. Of equal significance if social science is to develop is the need for basic research into the personal and social processes of human : Herman R.
Lantz. The daily risks of life and limb, associated with the production of coal, are indicative of the courage of these people and their families. During both world wars the people of Coal Town were called upon to make tremendous personal sacrifices in order that the economy be supplied with essential fuel.
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B&N Outlet Membership Educators Gift. Additional Physical Format: Online version: Lantz, Herman R. People of Coal Town. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [] (OCoLC) "Coal Town, the Life and Times of Dawson, New Mexico" Toby Smith ISBN My wife and I discovered Dawson on a vacation to northern New Mexico.
A picture on a historical marker showed a once relatively large town that had had many houses and facilities. We were both struck by there being a cemetery with no surviving by: 1.
One of the cover corners is lightly bumped. The book was published by People, Inc. in and contains pages, including the name index, and several black and white images. The book measures 11 inches by 8 1/2 inches and is signed by the editor, Katharine C. Shearer /5(4). PEOPLE; Search the history search Search the Wayback Machine.
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Books to Borrow. Top American Libraries Canadian Libraries Universal Library Community Texts Project Gutenberg Biodiversity Heritage Library Children's Library. Full text of "People of Coal Town". New York: Dial Books (division of Penguin Putnam Inc.), April, Set in a coal camp in Illinois in the first years of the 20th century.
Shows very hard life. Does not explicitly blame coal operators. Main character is trying to get out of the mining town; her mother is her main opponent.
Mother has been ruined by hard life. People of Coal Town. [Herman R Lantz] -- Presents the story of life in a coal-mining community with the goal of enriching our understanding of community processes and understanding the daily risks to life and limb and the courage of the.
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Start by marking “Coal Town: Growing Up in Ashington ” as Want to Read: Want to Read saving Ratings: 0. Using oral histories, company records, and census data, Crandall A. Shifflett paints a vivid portrait of miners and their families in southern Appalachian coal towns from the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century.
He finds that, compared to their earlier lives on subsistence farms, coal-town life was not all bad. Shifflett examines how this view, quite common among the oral 4/5(1). Inspired by her in-laws' recollections of working in coal country, Susan Campbell Bartoletti has gathered the voices of men, women, and children who immigrated to and worked in northeastern Pennsylvania at the turn of the century.4/5.
Then, as now, West Virginia was coal country. The coal industry was essentially the state’s sole source of work, and massive corporations built homes, general stores, schools, churches and recreational facilities in the remote towns near the mines.
For miners, the system resembled something like : Lorraine Boissoneault. Virginia's Mountains Forged the People of Appalachia. The small scenic towns of Southwest Virginia spotlight the region's coal mining heritage. Experience the environment of these rugged mountain people, and learn about the families who depended on coal mining and the mining town itself for their bread and butter.
A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch is typically situated in a remote place and provides residences for a population of miners to reside near a coal mine. A coal town is a type of company town or mining community established by the employer, a mining company, which imports workers to work the mineral find.
Organized into groups of brief profiles from the town she anonymized as “Coal Brook, Pennsylvania,” the book is an unsparing and empathetic.
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Three years ago, the married couple moved from Florida and into the coal patch to be closer to their daughter -- who was attending school at Westmoreland County Community College -- and to get away from the heat, hurricanes and mosquitoes.
