The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia A Brief History 1st Edition by Tams ISBN 978-0937058558 0937058556
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ISBN 10: 0937058556
ISBN 13: 978-0937058558
Author: W. P. Tams
The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History first appeared in 1963, a little book by a man with no training as either a writer or a historian. Since then, this volume has become an essential sourcebook, consulted and quoted in nearly every study of coal field history. The surprising impact and durability of the book are due to both the information in it and the personality behind it. Through the first half of the twentieth century, William Purviance Tams lived coal. Rising from a young coal engineer to a senior coal baron, Tams stood at the center of Southern West Virginia industrialization. When he sold his company in 1955, Tams was the last of the old owner-operators, men with no personal or financial interest outside of coal. Tams wrote a book which could only have come from an ultimate insider. The everyday work of mining coal is here-laying track, blasting and loading the coal. So is the everyday business of coal, from sinking shafts and ventilating the work area, to administering a town and keeping the workers happy.
Table of contents:
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Introduction (by Ronald D. Eller)
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Preface
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Introduction
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Location and Early Development
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Finances and Organization
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Work in the Mines at the Turn of the Century
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The Gulf Smokeless Coal Company
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Personalities in Smokeless Coal Fields
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Place Names in the Smokeless Coal Fields
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Statistical Table
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