The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal by Keeney, Charles B.
The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal by Keeney, Charles B.

The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

"Keeney delivers a riveting and propulsive story about a nine-year battle to save sacred ground that was...
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Author: Charles B. Keeney
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The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal by Keeney, Charles B.

The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

$55.86
The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal by Keeney, Charles B.

The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

$55.86
Author: Charles B. Keeney
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Keeney delivers a riveting and propulsive story about a nine-year battle to save sacred ground that was the site of the largest labor uprising in American history. . . . He unveils a powerful playbook on successful activism that will inspire countless others for generations to come." --Eric Eyre, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic

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 in US history. Ninety years later, the site became embroiled in a second struggle, as activists came together to fight the coal industry, state government, and the military- industrial complex in a successful effort to save the battlefield--sometimes dubbed "labor's Gettysburg"--from destruction by mountaintop removal mining.

The Road to Blair Mountain is the moving and sometimes harrowing story of Charles Keeney's fight to save this irreplaceable landscape. Beginning in 2011, Keeney--a historian and great-grandson of Frank Keeney--led a nine-year legal battle to secure the site's placement on the National Register of Historic Places. His book tells a David-and-Goliath tale worthy of its own place in West Virginia history. A success story for historic preservation and environmentalism, it serves as an example of how rural, grassroots organizations can defeat the fossil fuel industry.

Author: Charles B. Keeney
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 01/01/2021
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781949199857


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2020
Foreword 12/23/2020

About the Author
Charles B. Keeney is an assistant professor of history at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College. The author of two books, he served as president of Friends of Blair Mountain and was a founding member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum.
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