Table of Contents
Three Places to Start Reading the Story
#1A Pain (Start here for a flash forward beginning.)
#2A Endings and Beginnings (Start here for a slow burn introduction of early main historical characters and child labor based on first person accounts.)
#15A The Black Hand (Start here if you want to begin reading the graphic history when rising action picks up.)
Supplimentary Materials
Where’s Bullpush?
Recurring Characters
A True Story–but what does that mean?
Wait, The Original Rednecks were Socialists? That doesn’t seem right.
Difficult Topics–A Discussion
Author Bios
Bullpush Merchantile Store
List of Sources
Prologue and Maps
Second Generation — 1941
Dobe Glass & Margaret “Mag” Gillespie Glass
#1A Pain <–Start here for a flash forward beginning.
#1B Not Again
#1C Paternalism
Chapter 1 — Beginings
First Generation Child Miners
CC Gillespie
#2A Endings and Beginnings <–Start here for a slow burn introduction of main historical characters and child labor.
#2B Shots in the Night
#2C Going to Work
#2D In the Mine
#2E Trapper Boy 4/17/23
#2F End of Shift 4 /20/23
Payday #3A 4/23/23
Elephants #3B 4/27/23
Church #4A 5/1/23
Back to the Grindstone #4B 5/4/23
Booker T. Washington
Out of Slavery and Into the Dark #5A 5/8/23
Lost #5B 5/11/23
A Dangerous Business #5C 5/15/23
Priorities #5D 5/18/23
An Amazing Thing #5E 5/22/23
Revelation #5F 5/25/23
Better Than Heaven #5G 5/29/23
From Servant to Formal Education #5H 6/1/23
Fred Mooney
Timberyard Dustup #6A
David and Goliath #6B
An Unforeseen Consequence #6C
Revenge #6D
Skedaddle #6E
Frank Keeney
Everyone Starts Out as a Trapper Boy #7A
Boy Bites Mule #7B
Kanawha River Coal Camps
Frank Keeney Continued
Meeting Mother Jones #8A
Leave the Pool Hall Alone #8B 6/29/23
Meeting in Montgomery
Union Picnic #9A 7/2/23
Disconnect #9B 7/6/23
Cooper Family
Bedtime Story #10A
A Place of Our Own #10B
Sick #11A
So Tired #11B
Fire #11C
Not Your Fault #11D
Not Long Ago #12A
The Wagon #12B
My Fault? #12C
Snowball Hill #12D
Bulls and Cows #13A
What’s a Bull For? #13B
Bullpush Hollow #13C
Sick Again #14A
Mrs. Cook #14B
A Worse Time #14C
Not A Hickory Switch #14D
*Labor Day Extra!
The Big House #14E
Lucky #14F
Hush Now #14G
Turf Wars
The Black Hand #15A <–Start here if you want to begin the story when rising action picks up.
Mafia and Hillbillies #16A
Devil #16B
Beer Delivery #17A
Ambush #17B
Aftermath #17C
All Dead #17D
Questions #17E
Case Closed #17F
All The News #17G
That’s Fit To Print #17H
Meanwhile at Longacre–CC Gillespie and the Cooper Family
Thief #19A 06/05/24
I Owe My Soul #19B 06/12/24
Stick With Me #19C 06/19/24
Pickin’ ‘n Loadin’ #19D 06/26/24
It’d be a Shame, Harry #19E 07/03/24
The First Bank of Elizabeth #20A –07/10/24
Never Had No Farm #20B 07/17/24
Waste Not Want Not #21A 07/24/24
Errands #21B 07/31/2024
Ten Dollars #21C 08/07/2024
Crap! #21D 08/14/2024
Ten Dollars is Ten Dollars #21E 08/26/2024
Reflecting on the John #21F 08/28/2024
Chapter 2 — Enough is Enough
Throwing in the Towel #22A 09/10/2024
The Red and Black #22B 09/18/2024
Rednecks #22C 09/25/2024
Shut it Down Part 1 #22D 10/04/2024
Hurricane Helene Interlude 10/11/2024
Shut It Down Part 2 #22E 10/22/2024
Reasonable Bullets #22F 10/31/2024
Short Negotiations #22G
Send Reinforcements! #22H
Outgunned #22I
Arrested #22J
