Bullpush Hollow

A Story of Miners and Their Families in the Coal Camps of West Virginia and the Mine Wars of the Early 1900’s.

A Struggle for Freedom

Bullpush Hollow

Bullpush Hollow

A Story of Miners and Their Families in the Coal Camps of West Virginia and the Mine Wars of the Early 1900’s.

A Struggle for Freedom

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A PARTIAL LIST OF SOURCES

Narrative Sources

Modern Books and Compilations

    • Unpublished personal interviews and oral history collected by Mary Spaniol Glass, Roxanna Glass, and John Glass

    • Unpublished written Gillespie, Cooper, and Glass family histories by Mary Spaniol Glass

    • Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 (Working Class in American History): Corbin, David: —  Corbin is a meticulous researcher and documents his work well. #Comprehensive #David Corbin

    • Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: David Corbin Reading In Progress–Compilation of contemporary and primary sources #Comprehensive #Primary Material #David Corbin

    • The Devil is Here in these Hills by James Green  #Comprehensive

    • Smithers WV by John Cavalier #Longacre #Smithers #local history

    • Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks by Ginny Savage Ayers and Lon Savage

    • Coal towns: life, work, and culture in company towns of southern Appalachia, 1880-1960 by Crandall A Shifflett — A decent very general overview of the subject.

    • Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21, LON SAVAGE

    • The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal Charles B. Keeney #Blair

    • SAGO MINE DISASTER AND AN OVERVIEW OF MINE SAFETY, U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR, HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION & RELATED AGENCIES, COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

    • Absentee Landowning and Exploitation in West Virginia, 1760-1920, Barbara Rasmussen

    • Transnational West Virginia: Ethnic Communities and Economic Change, 1840-1940, Ken Fones-Wolf and Ronald Lewis Eds.

    • Haven’t had reason refer to this one yet for the story, but it’s so well done, that not including some information from this book in a flash forward at some point would seem criminal: Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic, Eric Eyr

  • The Court Martial of Mother Jones — Edward Steel Jr., Ed. (Includes period documents with modern context and analysis.
  • African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry, Joe William Trotter Jr.

Period Books, Resources, and Compilations

    • Civil War in West Virginia: Winthrop Lane 1921 #Comprehensive #Winthrop Lane

    • Struggle in the Coal Fields: The Autobiography of Fred Mooney Edited by J. W. Hess. #Autobiography #Mooney

    • The Autobiography of Mother Jones #autobiography #Mother jones

    • Child Labor in West Virginia Pamphlet No. 86, National Child Labor Committee. Child Labor in West Virginia, by E. N. Clopper, 1908. #child labor

    • Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones, Edward M. Steele, Ed., 1988 #mother jones

    • West Virginia Code 1916  #legal

    • WV Statutes 1887 #legal

    • On boring from within – Bert Russell, The One Big Union Monthly (February 1938) #Socialism

  • The Works of Ralph Chaplin Poet, Journalist, Author, Activist
      • Bars and Shadows

      • The Centralia Conspiracy

      • General Strike for Industrial Freedom

      • Works in The International Socialist Review April 1913

    • When the Leaves Come Out #Paint Creek #Rebel Verses #Poetry
    • Wobbly: The Rough-and-Tumble Story of an American Radical #Paint & Cabin Creek
  • Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia – Senate Resolution No. 37, 1912  #legal #government #investigation #Paint Creek
  • Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Sixty-third Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 37, a Resolution Authorizing the Appointment of a Committee to Make an Investigation of Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia [June 2-Oct. 29, 1913] #legal #government #investigation #Paint Creek
  • Report of West Virginia Mining Investigation Commission, appointed by Governor Glasscock on the 28th day of August, 1912 #legal #government #investigation # Paint Creek
  • West  Virginia Coal Fields: Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 80, Directing the Committee on Education and Labor to Investigate the Recent Acts of Violence in the Coal Fields of West Virginia and Adjacent Territory and the Causes which Led to the Conditions which Now Exist in Said Territory, [Thursday, July 14, 1921 and October 27, 1921].#legal #government #investigation
  • Companies B, C, and D, Twenty-Fifth United States Infantry. Report of the Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry Relative to the Shooting Affray at Brownsville, Tex. August 13-14, 1906 by Soldiers of Companies B, C, and D Twenty-Fifth United States Infantry
  • AFFRAY AT BROWNSVILLE, TEX. HEARINGS BEFORE TIME COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE Vol 1-3
  • Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate Concerning the Affray at Brownsville, Tex., on the Night of August 13 and 14, 1906
  • GENERAL COURT- MARTIAL Headquarters Department of Texas San Antonio, Tex., February 4, 1907 IN THE CASE OF Maj. CHARLES W. PENROSE
  • GENERAL COURT-MARTIAL Headquarters Department of Texas San Antonio, Tex., April 15, 1.07 IN THE CASE OF EDGAR A. MACKLIN
  • 60th Congress THE BROWNSVILLE AFFRAY. March 11, 1908. Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following as the VIEWS OF A MINORITY.
  • 60th Congress CERTAIN FORMER MEMBERS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH REGIMENT, UNITED STATES INFANTRY. April 1, 1908 Mr. Warren, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following as the VIEWS OF THE MINORITY.
  • 59th Congress H. R. 24329. A BILL For the relief of certain persons who sustained injuries in person and property at Brownsville, Texas
  • 60th Congress NAMES OF ENLISTED MEN DISCHARGED ON ACCOUNT OF BROWNS- VILLID AFFRAY, WITH APPLICATIONS FOR REENLISTMENT. LETTER FROM THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR,
  • 60th Congress OSCAR W. REID v. UNITED STATES.59TH CONGRESS, SENATE. 2d Session. Document No.107. PRELIMINARY REPORT oF COMMISSION 0F THE CONSTITUTION LEAGUE 0F THE UNITED STATES ON AFFRAY AT BROWNSVILLE, TEX. AUGUST 13 AND 14, 1906, AND
  • 60TH CONGRESS, REINSTATEMENT OF SOLDIERS DISCHARGED FROM COMPANIES B, C, AND D, TWENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY.  MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
  • 60TH CONGRESS, SPECIAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMUNICATED TO THE SENATE ON DECEMBER 14, 1908
  • 59TH CONGRESS,SUMMARY DISCHARGE OR MUSTERING OUT OF REGIMENTS OR COMPANIES. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, A REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY Of WAR, TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING A LETTER OF GENERAL NETTLETON, AND MEMORANDA AS TO PRECEDENTS FOR THE SUMMARY DISCHARGE OR MUSTERING OUT OF REGIMENTS OR COMPANIES.
  • 60TH CONGRESS, THE BROWNSVILLE AFFRAY Report of the Inspector-General of the Army; Order of the President Discharging Enlisted Men of Companies B, C, and D, Twenty-fifth Infantry; Messages of the President to the Senate; and Majority and Minority Reports of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs
  • The Denial of Civil Liberties in the Coal Fields Winthrop Lane #Comprehensive #Winthrop Lane
  • Masonic Token Pub ME 1913 #Masonic
  • Masonic text book with landmarks, ceremonies and forms: Compiled for the use of lodges under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of West Virginia: Long, Odel S #Masonic
  • Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of West Virginia at Its Grand Annual Convention #Masonic
  • The Virginia TextBook containing the Landmarks of Masonry 1920 #Masonic
  • Old Gimlet Eye; the adventures of Smedley D. Butler as told to Lowell Thomas
  • The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia, W. P. Tams, Jr. Second Edition Introduction by Ronald D. Eller  #owner #operator
  • The Case of the Bituminous Coal Mine Workers, as Presented by the United Mine Workers of America to the President’s Coal Commission, appointed December, 1919
  • THE CHECK-OFF SYSTEM AND THE CLOSED SHOP AMONG THE UNITED MINE WORKERS, F.A. King,
  • History of United Mine Workers of America from the Year 1860-1890, Chris Evans
  • Twenty Objections to Christians belonging to Labor Unions, George Washington Fink
  • Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington

Period News and Periodicals

 

    • Feudalism and Civil War in the United States of America NOW. Everybody’s Magazine May 1913 #news #paint creek #cabin creek #comprehensive

    • April 1913 International Socialist Review  #news #paint creek #cabin creek  #Socialism

    • June 1913 International Socialist Review #news #paint creek #cabin creek  #Socialism

    • July 1913 Socialist Review #Hatfield Settlement  #anti-Deb #news #paint creek #cabin creek  #Socialism

    • August 1913 International Socialist Review #news #paint creek #cabin creek  #Socialism

    • The Nation for May 29, 1920. Private Ownership Of Public Officials, Arthur Gleason #Matewan #Blair Mountain

    • United Mine Workers Journal: Volume 32 1921 #UMW

  • Semi-centennial History of West Virginia, 1913 James Morton Callahan

Shorter Scholarly Resources

    • The Court-Martial of Mother Jones EDWARD M. STEEL Editor

    • A Union Man: The life of C. Frank Keeney  Master’s Thesis of Charles Bellemont Keeney III, marshall.edu. Explains how the coal operators got control of land through court cases concerning duplicate deeds.  They basically purchased old deeds at discount prices and then took current occupants to court claiming their deeds were invalid–and did so with widespread success.  This thesis is packed with relevant information, original research, and well thought out analysis. #Comprehensive #Frank Keeney #Keeney

    • Vending Vice: The Rise and Fall of West Virginia State State Prohibition, 1852–1934 Michael J. Buseman West Virginia University  #prohibition #yost #moonshine

    • Betrayal in the West Virginia Coal Fields: Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Party of America, 1912–1914 David Corbin The Journal of American History Vol. 64, No. 4 (Mar., 1978)  , pp. 987-1009 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1890733 #David Corbin  #Socialism #Debbs

    • “Citizens of this Great Republic”: Politics and the West Virginia Miners, 1900–1922 Cambridge University Press, Roger Fagge #blair mountain #matewan #race #black #white #immigrants #socialism

    • The Brownsville Raid’s 168th Man: The Court-Martial of Corporal Knowles Garna L. Christian

    • The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 93, No. 1 (Jul., 1989), pp. 45-59 #Brownsville

    • PRELUDE TO BROWNSVILLE: THE TWENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY AT FORT NIOBRARA, NEBRASKA, 1902-06 THOMAS R. BUECKER Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 2 (SPRING 1996), pp. 95-106 #Brownsville

  • Anne T. Lawrence Coal Miner Oral History Interviews, 1972 Text and Audio Recordings  (The source material for On Dark And Bloody Ground By Anne Lawrence)
  • The Social Dynamics of Color, Clasa, and Gender: Afro-American Work and Community in the Southern West Virginia Coal Fields, 1915-1932, Joe William Trotter Jr., Dec 88, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Cincinnati, OH, December 28-30, 1988), ERIC ED 309 903

Web Based  and Multimedia Resources

    • Genealogy Sites

       

        • Familysearch.org #Genealogy

        • Myheritage #Genealogy

        • Ancestry.com #Genealogy

    • Blood on the Mountain (History of miner exploitation) DVD Mari-Lynn Evans & Jordan Freeman (directors)

    • Harlan County USA (Video) Excellent Documentary about 1970s strike and conditions (Youtube)

 

 

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