"In 1921 Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia was the site of the country's bloodiest armed insurrection since the Civil War, a battle pitting miners led by Frank Keeney against agents of the coal barons intent on quashing organized labor. It was the largest labor uprising i…
With its dense forests and plentiful rainfall, West Virginia and the rest of the Central Appalachian region is an almost perfect habitat for hundreds of varieties of wild mushrooms. For the mushroom hunter, this vast bounty provides sheer delight and considerable challenge, for …
"Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians is an easy-to-use, detailed guide for both the beginner and expert mushroomer. Organized for convenient field use, the guide describes and illustrates approximately 400 species. Particular emphasis has been placed on those…
"The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history - the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and lawless exploitation…
"In 1921, some ten thousand West Virginia coal miners-outraged over years of brutality and exploitation-picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state. For ten days the miners fought a pitched battle again…
This long-neglected slice of American history is a saga of the conflicting political, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the power structure of twentieth-century America.
In a coming-of-age story, [the author] recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world of hellfire religion and licentious gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato "processes," and of slyly…
Gives an indelible portrait of a vanished America. Born in 1950, Gates grew up in Piedmont (population 2,565), a West Virginia town perched on the side of a hill in the Allegheny Mountains. He was raised in a small, intimate, middle-class "colored" community where secrets and ha…
Gives an indelible portrait of a vanished America. Born in 1950, Gates grew up in Piedmont (population 2,565), a West Virginia town perched on the side of a hill in the Allegheny Mountains. He was raised in a small, intimate, middle-class "colored" community where secrets and ha…
"In this rich memoir of his early life, the celebrated scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us an indelible portrait of a vanished America. Born in 1950, he grew up in Piedmont (population 2,565), a West Virginia town perched on the side of a hill in the Allegheny Mo…
This volume describes the Buffalo Creek Flood -- and also the investigation and legal actions that followed. The Buffalo Creek Flood was a disaster that occurred in 1972 in West Virginia. An impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, …
"Rebecca Hawks has come home to remember who she was before the lure of life as a social worker in a big city nearly destroyed her. Ex-Navy Corpsman, Nicolas Hart has moved to Hawks Mountain in hope that its timeless Appalachian serenity will help him overcome his painful war me…
Zoe is about to discover her true courageous spirit. She must find the key of valor--on the last of three dangerous quests that will force her to confront her darkest fears ... or suffer immeasurable loss.
