Mining, Molly Maguire Links, etc.
o
Ohio State University
- historical anthracite mining links
The above Ohio State U. links are really great! You have to check them all
out! I don't know why a college in Ohio Pennsylvania
1.
The Overthrow of the Molly Maguires
o Drifton PA - Railroads and Coal
o Railroads and Anthracite Homepage
o 81st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Company K
o 147th Pennsylvania Volunteers
o Greater Hazleton Historical Society
o Shenandoah Area Historical Society
o The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
o Coal: Ancient Gift Serving Modern Man
o How can you tell a coal cracker?
o Coalspeak: Dictionary of the Coal Region
o An Excellent Eckley Homepage...Great Pictures!
§ Additional Tench Coxe info. Many interesting endnotes
o Books
1. 1. Best Companions : Letters of Eliza
Middleton Fisher and her mother, Mary
Hering Middleton, from
by
Eliza Cope Harrison (Editor) (Hardcover)
Usually ships in 2-3 days
- 2. Canal History and Technology Proceedings, Volume XIX
In 1878, the trials of the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish immigrants, ended a
decade of violence between the mine bosses and their Irish workers. The
trials were infamous for the fact that private attorneys and anthracite company
executives served as special prosecutors. Lance Metz explores the theory
that Edward W. Clark, president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, was
actually a special prosecutor in the trial. The evidence against
Published by the Canal History and Technology Press,
- 3.Nine Bells at the Breaker: An Immigrant's Story
by
Geraldine Glodek © 1998 Geraldine Glodek
Published by The Barn Peg Press,
- 4. Loves Legacy
by Denise
Daniels
Published by Zebra Books
Historical Romance
- 5.Strange Thunder in Jubilee
- 6.Civil War Books from C. Clayton Thompson
- 7.Civil War Books from the Camp Pope Bookshop
- 8.Smokestacks and Black Diamonds:A History of Carbon County
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