The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising

by Shogan, Robert
ISBN: 9780465077731
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In 1921, some 10,000 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 against an opposing legion of deputies, state police, and makeshift militia. Only the intervention of a Federal expeditionary force ended this undeclared war. In The Battle of Blair Mountain, Robert Shogan shows this long-neglected slice of American history to be a saga of the conflicting political, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the power structure of twentieth-century America.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Shogan, Robert
  • ISBN: 9780465077731
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.09 x 0.67
  • Number Of Pages: 296
  • Publication Year: 2006