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The Story of Coal
Lane, Winthrop D. | October 29, 1924 issue

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The article discusses the book "The Coal Industry," by A.T. Shurick. Less than 20 years ago wildcats howled at night and bears lumbered through the wilderness in places where today man has built unending stretches of coal-mining villages. The romance of coal lies in part in the very novelty with which it is mined in some sections of the United States. Where solitude once reigned over ranges of forest-topped hills, and man was seen only in settlers' huts, mine cars now whizz in and out of holes in the hillside, railroad sidings run in many directions, and village after village of coal-mining operations extends before the eye.

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COAL Industry, The (Book); SHURICK, A. T.; COAL mines & mining; COAL trade; RAILROADS; UNITED States
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