03592nam 2200769Ia 450 991016665430332120200520144314.01-60732-707-41-4571-8441-997866136887740-87421-865-91-280-77838-5(CKB)2550000000104286(EBL)944066(OCoLC)801407283(SSID)ssj0000687976(PQKBManifestationID)11942914(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000687976(PQKBWorkID)10757206(PQKB)11321278(MdBmJHUP)muse17626(Au-PeEL)EBL3442886(CaPaEBR)ebr10572668(CaONFJC)MIL368877(Au-PeEL)EBL944066(ScCtBLL)d1d86fdd-114b-4f6e-8d1f-f2ecc47e9042(MiAaPQ)EBC3442886(MiAaPQ)EBC944066(EXLCZ)99255000000010428620120403d2012 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrCoal in our veins a personal journey /Erin Ann Thomas1st ed.Logan, Utah Utah State University Press20121 online resource (287 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87421-863-2 Includes bibliographical references.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.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 ofCoal minersUtahBiographyCoal minersWalesBiographyWelsh AmericansUtahBiographyCoal mines and miningUtahHistoryCoal mines and miningWalesHistoryCoalEnvironmental aspectsUnited StatesCoalSocial aspectsUnited StatesCoal minersCoal minersWelsh AmericansCoal mines and miningHistory.Coal mines and miningHistory.CoalEnvironmental aspectsCoalSocial aspects622/.3340922Thomas Erin Ann999352MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910166654303321Coal in our veins2292974UNINA