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Reddit mentions of Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21
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Reddit mentions: 2
We found 2 Reddit mentions of Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21. Here are the top ones.
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Specs:
| Height | 8.5 Inches |
| Length | 5.5 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | September 1990 |
| Weight | 0.6 Pounds |
| Width | 0.9 Inches |
The Battle of Blair Mountain was pretty wild too, they brought in the Army Air Corps to bomb striking miners, and as far as I know is barely taught in schools. I only know about it because I had a prof in undergrad many years ago, Lon Savage, who wrote an (excellent) book on it called Thunder in the Mountains, later used as a basis for the also-excellent movie Matewan.
I know some of the info for that video came from a book called Thunder in the Mountains. Its a book entirely about the coal wars of 1920-1921 and just a really good book.
You also have the Official Fire Report notice there is a part at the top of the second page missing. It also mentions "exploding small arms ammunition."
Lastly you have the Testimony of William Briggs stating that Capitol would " destroyed either by fire or a bomb explosion"
yea the rabbit holes go mostly like that, a lot of using:
https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/
http://www.wvculture.org/history/
https://wvhistoryonview.org/