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Winner of the 2012 Evans Biography and Handcart Award, Coal in Our Veins employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-456752023-06-05T13:09:04Z Coal in Our Veins Thomas, Erin Ann History Coal Coal mining Mining Winner of the 2012 Evans Biography and Handcart Award, Coal in Our Veins employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of the book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utah, where they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions two of the worst mining disasters in American history and the history of coal development in Utah are explored in the second part. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-31 03:00:26 2020-04-01T13:49:45Z 2020-04-01T13:49:45Z 2012 book 625240 OCN: 801407283 9780874218657;9781607327073 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45675 eng application/pdf n/a 625240.pdf Utah State University Press 10.2307/j.ctt4cgrkb 100336 10.2307/j.ctt4cgrkb 92301f05-35f5-4e32-9d76-fce766468ffd b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780874218657;9781607327073 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100336 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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