Books, Articles, and Other Material Relating to Coal Mining in General

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BOOKS

McAlister Coleman, Men and Coal (New York, 1943)
Howard N. Eavenson, Coal Through the Ages (New York, 1935)
Howard N. Eavenson, The First Century and a Quarter of American Coal Industry (Pittsburgh, 1942)
A. Dudley Gardner and Verla R. Flores, Forgotten Frontier: A History of Wyoming Coal Mining (Boulder, 1989)
R. G. Bluemer, Black Diamond Mines: A History of the Early Coal Mines of the Illinois River Valley (Granville, 2001)
Dorothy Schwieder, Black Diamonds: Life and Work in Iowa's Coal Mining Communities, 1895-1925 (Ames, 1983)
David A. Wolff, Industrializing the Rockies: Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914 (Boulder, 2003)
Rick J. Clyne, Coal People: Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930 (Boulder, 2000)
F. Stanley, The Dawson Tragedies (Texas, 1964)
Ronald D. Eller, Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930 (Knoxville, 1984)
Price V. Fishback, Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930 (New York, 1992)
Karin A. Shapiro, The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896 (Chapel Hill, 1998)
James Krohe, Jr., Midnight at Noon: A History of Coal Mining in Sangamon County (Springfield, 1975)
Carl D. Oblinger, Divided Kingdom: Work, Community, and the Mining Wars in the Central Illinois Coal Fields During the Great Depression (Springfield, 1991)
Homer Lawrence Morris, The Plight of the Bituminous Coal Miner (Philadelphia, 1934)
Roger Fagge, Power, Culture, and Conflict in the Coalfields: West Virginia and South Wales, 1900-1922 (Manchester, 1996)
ARTICLES

Alan Hynding, "The Coal Miners of Washington Territory: Labor Troubles in 1888-89", Arizona and the West 12:3 (Autumn 1970):221-236.
Robert Rutland, "The Mining Camps of Iowa: Faded Sources of Hawkeye History", Iowa Journal of History 54:1 (January 1956):35-42.
Bill Bryans, "Coal Mining in Twentieth Century Wyoming: A Brief History", Journal of the West 21:4 (October 1982):24-35.
Dennis S. Grogan, "Unionization in Boulder and Weld Counties to 1890", The Colorado Magazine 44:4 (Fall 1967):324-341.
Harry R. Rubenstein, "The Great Gallup Coal Strike of 1933", New Mexico Historical Review 52:3 (July 1977):173-192.
Philip A. Kalisch, "The Woebegone Miners of Wyoming: A History of Coal Mine Disasters in the Equality State", Annals of Wyoming 42:2 (October 1970):237-242.
Allan Kent Powell, "The 'Foreign Element' and the 1903-4 Carbon County Coal Miners' Strike", Utah Historical Quarterly 43:2 (Spring 1975):125-154.
Helen Z. Papanikolas, "Utah's Coal Lands: A Vital Example of How America Became a Great Nation", Utah Historical Quarterly 43:2 (Spring 1975):104-124.
Price V. Fishback, "An Alternative View of Violence in Labor Disputes: The Bituminous Coal Industry, 1890-1930", Labor History 37:3 (Summer 1995):426-456.
Dennis Kirchner, "A History of Mine Disasters in Webster County, Kentucky", Webster's Wagon Wheel 9:4 (1988):49-63.
Dwight F. Henderson, "The Texas Coal Mining Industry", Southwestern Historical Quarterly 68:2 (October 1964):207-219.
Sigfus Olafson, "Early Coal Miners in Boone County", Kith and Kin of Boone County, West Virginia 4:? (October 1978):81-85.
Ralph V. Cutlip, "The Beginning of Coal Mining in Braxton County", Journal of the Braxton Historical Society 5:1 (March 1977):4-8. [Note -- County is in West Virginia]
K. C. Ronalds, "K. C. Ronalds on Coal Mining", The Shawnee 9:4 (Spring 1994):13-15. [Note -- Geographical area is southern Illinois]
Joanna Sampson, "Strikebreaker!", Journal of the West 30:4 (October 1991):91-97. [Note -- Geographical area is the state of Colorado]
Jean M. Greiner, "The Golden, Boulder and Caribou", The Colorado Magazine 44:4 (Fall 1967):307-323.
Eric Margolis, "Western Coal Mining as a Way of Life: An Oral History of the Colorado Coal Miners to 1914", Journal of the West 24:3 (July 1985):i-115.
Herbert G. Gutman, "The Braidwood Lockout of 1874", Illinois State Historical Society Journal 53:1 (1960):5-28.
James Duane Bolin, "'An Air of Tenseness': Labor Strife and Tragedy in Kentucky's Western Coal Field, 1888-1939", The Filson Club History Quarterly 73:1 (January 1999):3-28.
Willard Rouse Jillson, "A History of the Coal Industry in Kentucky", The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society 20:58 (1922):20-45.
Otto A. Rothert, "Coal Mining and its Bearing on Local History", The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society 12:35 (May 1914):33-36.
Eugene Wolfe, "No Christmas at Monongah -- December 6, 1907", Goldenseal 25:4 (Winter 1999):12-20.
John Barnhill, "Triumph of Will: The Coal Strike of 1899-1903", The Chronicles of Oklahoma 61:1 (Spring 1983):80-95.
Stanley Clark, "Immigrants in the Choctaw Coal Industry", The Chronicles of Oklahoma 33:4 (Winter 1955-56):440-455.
David Robertson, "'Heaps of history': Toluca and the Historic Longwall Mining District", Journal of Illinois History 3:3 (Autumn):162-184.
George B. Cotkin, "Strikebreakers, Evictions and Violence: Industrial Conflict in the Hocking Valley, 1884-1885", Ohio History 87:2 (Spring 1978):140-150.
Oliver Knight, "An Oklahoma Indian Trader As a Frontiersman of Commerce", The Journal of Southern History 23:2 (May 1957):203-219.
Otis K. Rice, "Coal Mining in the Kanawha Valley to 1861: A View of Industrialization in the Old South", The Journal of Southern History 31:4 (November 1965):393-416.
Michael Madsen, "Coal Mining and Coal Resources in Boone County and Story County, Iowa", Trail Tales 36:? (1980):5-48.
Joe Pestotnik, "Fifty Years of Coal Mining", Trail Tales 36:? (1980):49-52. [Note -- Geographical area is the state of Iowa]
David V. Johnson, "History of Mining at Madrid, Iowa", Trail Tales 36:? (1980):53-63.
"Coal Mining in the Ogden Area", Trail Tales 36:? (1980):64-69. [Note -- Geographical area is the state of Iowa]
"Brief History of Local Union No. 869, U.M.W. of A.", Trail Tales 36:? (1980):70-76. [Note -- Geographical area is the state of Iowa]
Audrey M. McVay and Larry Adams, "Some Further Reflections on Coal Mining", Trail Tales 36:? (1980):77-80. [Note -- Geographical area is the state of Iowa]
Marilyn D. Rhinehart, "'Underground Patriots': Thurber Coal Miners and the Struggle for Individual Freedom, 1888-1903", Southwestern Historical Quarterly 92:? (April 1989):509-542.
Dick King, "'Rascals' and Rangers", True West 22:? (March-April 1975):6-13, 40, 44.
F. E. Melder, "History of the Discoveries and Physical Development of the Coal Industry in the State of Washington", Pacific Northwest Quarterly 29:2 (April 1938):151-165.
THESES

Richard Patrick Joyce, "Miners of the Prairie: Life and Labor in the Wilmington, Illinois, Coal Field, 1866-1897", (M.A. thesis, Illinois State University, 1980).
William E. Powell, "The Historical Geography of the Impact of Coal Mining Upon the Cherokee-Crawford Coal Field of Southeastern Kansas", (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska, 1970).
Stanley A. Vining, "Men and Coal in Kansas: Their History and Politics", (M.A. thesis, University of Kansas, 1957).
Thomas R. Hackenmiller, "Industrialization and Organized Labor in the Early History of Kittitas County 1880-1900", (M.A. thesis, Central Washington University, 1986).
Jeremy Neely, "Bates County, Missouri: The Transformation of a Middle Western Frontier, 1855-1895", (M.A. thesis, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000).
Mark J. Stern, "To Bring Forth the Hidden Wealth: The Knights of Labor in the Coalfields of King County, Washington 1885-1891", (B.A. thesis, Reed College, 1973).
Michael R. McCormick, "A Comparative Study of Coal Mining Communities in Northern Illinois and Southeastern Ohio in the Late Nineteenth Century", (Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1978).
William Preston Powers, Jr., "The Subversion of 'Gordon's Kingdom': The Unionization of the Texas and Pacific Coal Mines at Thurber, 1888-1903", (M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Arlington, 1989).
Gene Aldrich, "A History of the Coal Industry in Oklahoma to 1907", (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1952).
Lawrence Walker Rogers, Jr., "The Arkansas Bituminous Coal Industry: A Case Study of Industry in an Underdeveloped Area", (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1964).