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Apr 2020
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Part One: The Second American Civil War ...

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Robert is joined by Spencer Crittenden to discuss The Battle of Blair Mountain.


FOOTNOTES:

  1. The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
  2. ‘Rape Rooms’: How West Virginia Women Paid Off Coal Company Debts
  3. New Evidence for the Gutman-Hill Debate
  4. What was the Esau scrip?
  5. “Store Pay Is Our Ruin”: The Tyranny of the Company Store
  6. Mountaineer Mine Wars
  7. The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot
  8. The Devil Is Here in These Hills
  9. Underground Coal Mine Disasters 1900 - 2010

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