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Reckoning at Eagle Creek: the Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

By Jeff , Biggers

Book information

Publisher
Nation Books;Perseus Books Group
Year
2010
ISBN
9781568586182, 1568586183
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1361660 bytes)
Pages
320 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Coal mines and mining--Illinois--Eagle Creek Regio

Description

Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family's nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so, he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods heritage, but also chronicles a dark and missing chapter in the American experience: the historical nightmare of coal outside of Appalachia, serving as an expos of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.

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