Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland image
ISBN-10:

1568584210

ISBN-13:

9781568584218

Author(s): Biggers, Jeff
Edition: 1
Released: Jan 26, 2010
Publisher: Nation Books
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
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Description:

Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family's nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so, he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods heritage, but also chronicles a dark and missing chapter in the American experience: the historical nightmare of coal outside of Appalachia, serving as an exposé of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.

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