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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166654303321

Autore

Thomas Erin Ann

Titolo

Coal in our veins : a personal journey / / Erin Ann Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-60732-707-4

1-4571-8441-9

9786613688774

0-87421-865-9

1-280-77838-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

622/.3340922

Soggetti

Coal miners - Utah

Coal miners - Wales

Welsh Americans - Utah

Coal mines and mining - Utah - History

Coal mines and mining - Wales - History

Coal - Environmental aspects - United States

Coal - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

In Coal in Our Veins, Erin Thomas 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 her 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