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Author Thomas, Erin Ann.

Title Coal in our veins : a personal journey / Erin Ann Thomas
Published Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2012

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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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Subject Thomas, Erin Ann -- Family
Thomas, Erin Ann -- Travel
SUBJECT Thomas, Erin Ann -- Travel
Thomas, Erin Ann -- Family
Thomas, Erin Ann fast
Subject Coal miners -- Utah -- Biography
Coal miners -- Wales -- Biography
Welsh Americans -- Utah -- Biography
Coal mines and mining -- Utah -- History
Coal mines and mining -- Wales -- History
Coal -- Environmental aspects -- United States
Coal -- Social aspects -- United States
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mining.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Coal -- Environmental aspects
Coal miners
Coal mines and mining
Families
Travel
Welsh Americans
United States
Utah
Wales
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012012249
ISBN 9780874218657
0874218659
9781457184413
1457184419
9781457184437
1457184435
9786613688774
6613688770
1280778385
9781280778384