04027oam 22005774a 450 991015507590332120170922081413.01-943665-52-41-943665-53-2(CKB)3710000000973384(MiAaPQ)EBC4770239(OCoLC)967107570(MdBmJHUP)muse58048(EXLCZ)99371000000097338420170217d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Industrialist and the Mountaineer[electronic resource] The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier /Ronald L. LewisMorgantown, [West Virginia] :West Virginia University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (313 pages) illustrations, mapsWest Virginia & Appalachia1-943665-51-6 1-943665-50-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.The incorporation of West Virginia -- Modernizing the law -- Robert W. Eastham, the early years -- Eastham in West Virginia -- Who were the Thompsons? -- Setting the stage for trouble -- The struggle for control -- The shoot-out and "Lawyers by the dozen" -- Jury selection and the appeal -- On trial for murder."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"--Provided by publisher."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 against a member of the new business elite who was, as a northern Republican, his cultural and political opposite. For Lewis, their clash was one flashpoint in a larger phenomenon central to US history in the second half of the nineteenth century: the often violent imposition of new commercial and legal regimes over holdout areas stretching from Appalachia to the trans-Missouri West. Taking a ground-level view of these so-called "wars of incorporation," Lewis's powerful microhistory shows just how strongly local communities guarded traditional relationships to natural resources. Modernizers sought to convict Eastham of murder, but juries drawn from the traditionalist population refused to comply. Although the resisters won the courtroom battle, the modernizers eventually won the war for control of the state's timber frontier"--Provided by publisher.West Virginia and Appalachia.NATURE / Natural ResourcesbisacshPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial RelationsbisacshHISTORY / United States / 19th CenturybisacshTrials (Murder)West VirginiaWest VirginiaHistory19th centuryElectronic books. NATURE / Natural Resources.POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.Trials (Murder)331.09HIS036040POL013000NAT038000bisacshLewis Ronald L.1940-,871534MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910155075903321The Industrialist and the Mountaineer2888805UNINA