TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Erin Ann
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Coal in our Veins : : A Personal Journey / 
SN  - 9780874218657
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Logan, Utah
PB  - Utah State University Press
KW  - Thomas, Erin Ann.
KW  - Thomas, Erin Ann
KW  - Welsh Americans
KW  - fast
KW  - Travel
KW  - Families
KW  - Coal mines and mining
KW  - Coal miners
KW  - Coal
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Mining
KW  - Charbon
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Americains d'origine galloise
KW  - Utah
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Mineurs de charbon
KW  - Pays de Galles
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Wales
KW  - History
KW  - Biography
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - lcgft
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - aat
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Introduction -- A Miner's Lamp -- Cymyru -- A Welsh Coal Miner -- The First Loco to Run on Rails -- Two Miners' Sons -- The Paths of Blind Horses -- Carbon County -- The Rattle of Dead Men's Skin -- Zeph and Maud -- The Castle Gate -- The Striking Years -- Get the Men Out -- Leaving Carbon -- Ghost Towns -- Bridge -- A Historical Gap -- West Virginia -- The Little White Chapel -- One Who Escaped -- A Memorial -- Mountains Made Low -- String-Town Appalachia -- Squatter on a Gold Mine -- Washington, D.C. -- The Energy Future of America -- A Drop in the Bucket -- Yes to Electric Reliability -- Coda -- In the Bowels of the Earth -- The Last Deep Coal Mine in Wales -- The Winds of Change -- Afterword; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/15078/
ER  -