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Growing Up in Coal Country
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Coal Country
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Ewan Gibbs
Categories: Coal mines and mining
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher:

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The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland's last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an end. Villages and towns across the densely pop
Coal Country
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Shirley Stewart Burns
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher:

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An illustrated chronicle of the growing protest movement against mountaintop removal mining (MTR) of coal in Appalachia, including essays, commentary, and oral
Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region
Language: en
Pages: 100
Authors: John Stuart Richards
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Four distinct anthracite coal fields encompass an area of 1,700 square miles in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. In the late nineteenth and early twent
Sewn in Coal Country
Language: en
Pages: 415
Authors: Robert P. Wolensky
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-24 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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By the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming Valley around the cities of Wilkes-Bar