Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations |
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illustration |
Contents |
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 |
Summary |
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 visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utah, where they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions two of the worst mining disasters in American history and the history of coal development in Utah are explored in the second part |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
In English |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
Subject |
Thomas, Erin Ann -- Family
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Thomas, Erin Ann -- Travel
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SUBJECT |
Thomas, Erin Ann -- Travel
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Thomas, Erin Ann -- Family
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Thomas, Erin Ann fast |
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Coal miners -- Utah -- Biography
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Coal miners -- Wales -- Biography
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Welsh Americans -- Utah -- Biography
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Coal mines and mining -- Utah -- History
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Coal mines and mining -- Wales -- History
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Coal -- Environmental aspects -- United States
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Coal -- Social aspects -- United States
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mining.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Coal -- Environmental aspects
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Coal miners
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Coal mines and mining
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Families
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Travel
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Welsh Americans
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United States
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Utah
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Wales
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Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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LC no. |
2012012249 |
ISBN |
9780874218657 |
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0874218659 |
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9781457184413 |
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1457184419 |
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9781457184437 |
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1457184435 |
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9786613688774 |
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6613688770 |
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1280778385 |
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9781280778384 |
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