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Paperback The Industrialist and the Mountaineer Book

ISBN: 1943665516

ISBN13: 9781943665518

The Industrialist and the Mountaineer

(Part of the West Virginia and Appalachia Series)

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In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis's book uses this largely forgotten episode as a window into contests over political, environmental, and legal change in turn-of-the-century Appalachia. The Eastham-Thompson feud pitted a former Confederate...

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