Coal in our Veins : A Personal Journey /

Coal in Our Veins employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of the book, she visi...

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Main Author: Thomas, Erin Ann
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2012.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- A Miner's Lamp -- Cymyru -- A Welsh Coal Miner -- The First Loco to Run on Rails -- Two Miners' Sons -- The Paths of Blind Horses -- Carbon County -- The Rattle of Dead Men's Skin -- Zeph and Maud -- The Castle Gate -- The Striking Years -- Get the Men Out -- Leaving Carbon -- Ghost Towns -- Bridge -- A Historical Gap -- West Virginia -- The Little White Chapel -- One Who Escaped -- A Memorial -- Mountains Made Low -- String-Town Appalachia -- Squatter on a Gold Mine -- Washington, D.C. -- The Energy Future of America -- A Drop in the Bucket -- Yes to Electric Reliability -- Coda -- In the Bowels of the Earth -- The Last Deep Coal Mine in Wales -- The Winds of Change -- Afterword. 
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