Download or read book The Legend of Miner s Creek written by Carolyn Keene and published by Aladdin Paperbacks. This book was released on 1992 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy finds the Pacific Northwest to be a land of breathtaking beauty and heart-stopping mystery.
Download or read book The Devil Is Here in These Hills written by James Green and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Download or read book The Northwest Mining Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Fork of the Clearwater River written by Wendell M. Stark and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about the inhabitents that lived and worked and raised their family's on the river prior to the building of the dam. It starts with the Norhtern Pacific Railroad surveys. It then tells about a band of the Nez Perce Indians that lived in the upper regions of this river for hundreds of years before the white man came. It then talks about the miners and the trapers that found their way into the upper reaches of this river. Then came the home steaders when the area was opened up. The U. S. Forest Service taking controle of the vast amount of land and timber. The loggers that came to harvest the timber. The development of fire protection and finnaly how the river is used today.
Download or read book Writers and Miners written by David C. Duke and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal miners evoke admiration and sympathy from the public, and writers—some seeking a muse, others a cause—traditionally champion them. David C. Duke explores more than one hundred years of this tradition in literature, poetry, drama, and film. Duke argues that as most writers spoke about rather than to the mining community, miners became stock characters in an industrial morality play, robbed of individuality or humanity. He discusses activist-writers such as John Reed, Theodore Dreiser, and Denise Giardina, who assisted striking workers, and looks at the writing of miners themselves. He examines portrayals of miners from The Trail of the Lonesome Pine to Matewan and The Kentucky Cycle. The most comprehensive study on the subject to date, Writers and Miners investigates the vexed political and creative relationship between activists and artists and those they seek to represent.
Download or read book The Literary Digest written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mining and Engineering Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mother Jones written by Mother Jones and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Jones was an exceptional woman who tirelessly fought for worker's rights till the end of her life. Labelled as the "Most Dangerous Woman" in America, she organised many successful strikes and championed for better enforcement of the child labor laws. In 1903, she also organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York. Excerpt: I was born in the city of Cork, Ireland, in 1830. My people were poor. For generations they had fought for Ireland's freedom. Many of my folks have died in that struggle. My father, Richard Harris, came to America in 1835, and as soon as he had become an American citizen he sent for his family. His work as a laborer with railway construction crews took him to Toronto, Canada. Here I was brought up but always as the child of an American citizen. Of that citizenship I have ever been proud. After finishing the common schools, I attended the Normal school with the intention of becoming a teacher. Dress-making too, I learned proficiently. My first position was teaching in a convent in Monroe, Michigan. Later, I came to Chicago and opened a dress-making establishment. I preferred sewing to bossing little children. However, I went back to teaching again, this time in Memphis, Tennessee. Here I was married in 1861. My husband was an iron moulder and a member of the Iron Moulders' Union...
Download or read book Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains written by Rossiter Worthington Raymond and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Most Influential Women in History Over 100 Memoirs Biographies written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 4407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection of memoirs, biographies and stories about the most incredible women in history, their lives and their legacies:_x000D_ Eighty Years and More by Elizabeth Cady Stanton_x000D_ Helen Keller: The Story of My Life_x000D_ Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People_x000D_ Reminiscences by Julia Ward Howe_x000D_ My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst_x000D_ The Autobiography of Mother Jones _x000D_ Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell_x000D_ Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography_x000D_ The Life of Florence Nightingale _x000D_ The Grimké Sisters_x000D_ Roswitha the Nun_x000D_ Marie de France_x000D_ Mechthild of Magdeburg_x000D_ Countess of Artois_x000D_ Christine de Pisan_x000D_ Agnes Sorel_x000D_ Alcestis_x000D_ Antigone_x000D_ Iphigenia_x000D_ Paula_x000D_ Catherine Douglas_x000D_ Lady Jane Grey_x000D_ Flora Macdonald_x000D_ Madame Roland_x000D_ Grace Darling_x000D_ Sister Dora_x000D_ Florence Nightingale_x000D_ Lucretia_x000D_ Sappho_x000D_ Aspasia of Pericles_x000D_ Xantippe_x000D_ Aspasia of Cyrus_x000D_ Cornelia, the Mother of the Gracchi_x000D_ Portia_x000D_ Octavia_x000D_ Cleopatra_x000D_ Mariamne_x000D_ Julia Domna_x000D_ Zenobia_x000D_ Valeria_x000D_ Eudocia_x000D_ Hypatia_x000D_ The Wife of Maximus_x000D_ The Lady Rowena_x000D_ Olga_x000D_ The Lady Elfrida_x000D_ The Countess of Tripoli_x000D_ Jane, Countess of Mountfort_x000D_ Laura de Sade_x000D_ The Countess of Richmond_x000D_ Elizabeth Woodville_x000D_ Jane Shore_x000D_ Catharine of Arragon_x000D_ Augustina Saragoza_x000D_ Charlotte Brontë…_x000D_ Marie Antoinette_x000D_ Sarah Siddons_x000D_ Mrs Grant_x000D_ Elizabeth Inchbald_x000D_ Elizabeth Hamilton_x000D_ Countess de Vemieiro_x000D_ Joanna Baillie_x000D_ Josephine_x000D_ Anne Radcliffe_x000D_ Miss Edgeworth_x000D_ Charlotte Corday_x000D_ Madame de Stael_x000D_ Madame de la Rochejaquelein_x000D_ Madame Recamier_x000D_ Mary Brunton_x000D_ Felicia Hemans_x000D_ Augustina Saragoza_x000D_ Charlotte Bronte_x000D_ Queen Anne_x000D_ Esther Johnson_x000D_ Esther Vanhomrigh_x000D_ Mary Astell_x000D_ Madame des Ursins_x000D_ Lady Grizel Jerviswoode_x000D_ Madame de Pontchartrain_x000D_ Elizabeth Halkett_x000D_ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu_x000D_ Madame du Deffand_x000D_ Phœbe Bentley_x000D_ Marquise du Chatelet_x000D_ Lady Huntingdon_x000D_ Flora Macdonald_x000D_ Madame Roland_x000D_ Grace Darling_x000D_ Sister Dora_x000D_ Maria Theresa_x000D_ Meta Moller_x000D_ Elizabeth Blackwell_x000D_ Lætitia Barbauld_x000D_ Hannah More_x000D_ Anna Seward_x000D_ Catherine Cockburn_x000D_ Elizabeth Berkeleigh...
Download or read book Mining and Scientific Press written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colliery Engineer with which is Combined the Mining Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Picked up at sea or Th gold miners of Minturne creek and other stories written by John Conroy Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineering and Mining Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coal Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miners written by Rick Steber and published by Bonanza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of gold in Califonia launched the nation's first gold rush. It began January 23, 1848. James Marshall, who was building a sawmill for John Sutter on the American River in the Sierra Nevada foothills, turned water from the millpond into the tailrace. A glimmer in the clear water caught his eye and he picked up a yellow rock about the size of a dime and weighing one-quarter ounce. He saw more and picked those up, too. John Sutter wrote in his diary that Marshall, 'soaked to the skin and dripping water,' came bursting into his office 'informing me he had something of utmost importance to tell me in private....' Word leaked out and the following year 80,000 miners rushed to Califonia hoping to claim a share of the big strike. They scratched and clawed gold from the hills and stream beds of Califomia and when the easy-pickings were gone they moved onto the eastem slopes of the Sierra Nevada and into the Rocky Mountains. Other disgruntled miners moved to the Northwest, and finally the lust for gold drove prospectors to the Alaskan frontier. The typical miner was a bearded young man, dressed in a slouch hat, red long johns, trousers tucked into hlgh-topped boots - he packed a shovel, pick and gold pan. When his dream of easy riches eventually died he often stayed in the West and became a farmer, stockman, tradesman or professional. If mar-ried, he sent for his family - if single, he married a daughter of pioneers and started a new family. The lasting effect of the gold rush was not so much in the individual accumulation of wealth, but in the simple fact that thousands of miners stayed rather than returning home and they helped win the West.
