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  • Author : Ellen Marie Wiseman
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Pages : 500 pages
  • ISBN : 9781628998214
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Download or Read online Coal River full in PDF, ePub and kindle. this book written by Ellen Marie Wiseman and published by Unknown which was released on 01 January 2016 with total page 500 pages. We cannot guarantee that Coal River book is available in the library, click Get Book button and read full online book in your kindle, tablet, IPAD, PC or mobile whenever and wherever You Like. As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools, while those who owe money are turned away to starve.

Coal River

Coal River
  • Author : Ellen Marie Wiseman
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release : 01 January 2016
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As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools, while those who owe money are turned away to starve.

Coal River

Coal River
  • Author : Michael Shnayerson
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 08 January 2008
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One of America's most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are blasting the mountains, decapitating them for coal. The forested ridge tops and valley streams of Appalachia—one of the country's natural treasures—are being destroyed, along with towns and communities. An entire culture is disappearing, and to this day, most Americans have no idea it's happening. Michael Shnayerson first traveled to the coal fields four years ago, on assignment for Vanity Fair. There he

The Coal River Valley in the Civil War West Virginia Mountains 1861

The Coal River Valley in the Civil War West Virginia Mountains 1861
  • Author : Michael B. Graham
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 23 September 2014
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The three rivers that make up the Coal River Valley--Big, Little and Coal--were named by explorer John Peter Salling (or Salley) for the coal deposits found along its banks. More than one hundred years later, the picturesque valley was witness to a multitude of bloody skirmishes between Confederate and Union forces in the Civil War. Often-overlooked battles at Boone Court House, Coal River, Pond Fork and Kanawha Gap introduced the beginning of "total war" tactics years before General Sherman used

Rules and Regulations of the Navigation Company of Coal River

Rules and Regulations of the Navigation Company of Coal River
  • Author : Navigation Company of Coal River,Dean H. William,Appalachian State University. W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Archives
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release : 01 August 1874
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Consists of the poster of the Rules and Regulations of the Navigation Company of Coal River and William H. Dean's "Steamboat Whistles on the Coal" from West Virginia History, which details the history of the Navigation Company of Coal River.