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

• Autore: Thomas Erin Ann
• Pubblicazione: Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 622/.3340922
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Coal in our veins
• ISBN: 1-60732-707-4; 1-4571-8441-9; 9786613688774; 0-87421-865-9; 1-280-77838-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910166654303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II