LEADER 04027oam 22005774a 450 001 9910155075903321 005 20170922081413.0 010 $a1-943665-52-4 010 $a1-943665-53-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000973384 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4770239 035 $a(OCoLC)967107570 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58048 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000973384 100 $a20170217d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Industrialist and the Mountaineer$b[electronic resource] $eThe Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier /$fRonald L. Lewis 210 1$aMorgantown, [West Virginia] :$cWest Virginia University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (313 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aWest Virginia & Appalachia 311 $a1-943665-51-6 311 $a1-943665-50-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $a"In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis's book uses this largely forgotten episode as a window into contests over political, environmental, and legal change in turn-of-the-century Appalachia"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis's book uses this largely forgotten episode as a window into contests over political, environmental, and legal change in turn-of-the-century Appalachia. The Eastham-Thompson feud pitted a former Confederate against a member of the new business elite who was, as a northern Republican, his cultural and political opposite. For Lewis, their clash was one flashpoint in a larger phenomenon central to US history in the second half of the nineteenth century: the often violent imposition of new commercial and legal regimes over holdout areas stretching from Appalachia to the trans-Missouri West. Taking a ground-level view of these so-called "wars of incorporation," Lewis's powerful microhistory shows just how strongly local communities guarded traditional relationships to natural resources. Modernizers sought to convict Eastham of murder, but juries drawn from the traditionalist population refused to comply. Although the resisters won the courtroom battle, the modernizers eventually won the war for control of the state's timber frontier"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aWest Virginia and Appalachia. 606 $aNATURE / Natural Resources$2bisacsh 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations$2bisacsh 606 $aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century$2bisacsh 606 $aTrials (Murder)$zWest Virginia 607 $aWest Virginia$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aNATURE / Natural Resources. 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century. 615 0$aTrials (Murder) 676 $a331.09 686 $aHIS036040$aPOL013000$aNAT038000$2bisacsh 700 $aLewis$b Ronald L.$f1940-,$0871534 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155075903321 996 $aThe Industrialist and the Mountaineer$92888805 997 $aUNINA