Bloodletting in Appalachia: The Story of West Virginia's Four Major Mine Wars and Other Thrilling Incidents of Its Coal Fields

by Howard Burton Lee

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870120417
• ISBN13: 9780870120411
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Bloodletting in Appalachia

Many of my realitives have spent their lives in the coal mines of West Virginia..Through stories handed down and some first hand knowledge, this book Tells it like it really was....West Virginia History at its finest..

One of the best books ever about the W.Va. mine wars

This book is a classic and a must-read for anyone interested in union history in America. The author is fair, too, which is a rarity in this genre: he tells of the union atrocities, as well as the ones committed by the companies and their goons. He's more interested in telling facts than pursuing a particular agenda. It was a time of evil and mean-spiritedness by both sides, which he reveals better than most. It explains the roots of the "us-against-them" culture in which the West Virginia economy has floundered for 80 years.

Appalachians Are Not Lazy Hicks

In plain, unvarnished style, Lee relates the history of greed and evil by the outside capital interests who came into West Virginia to rape and pillage. The miners wouldn't stand for it, and war broke out. The president had to declare martial law - twice.While Lee doesn't exactly have a beautiful, rolling style, he tells it like it was; he was there. If you want to know about the true character of the Appalachian people, read this book.

An excellent acount of West Virginia's Coal Mine Wars

This is the most unbiased telling of the struggles in West Virginia between the coal operators and the union. Mr. Lee offers an impartial insider's view of the birth (and or death) of the real West Virginia.