Description
Author: Shirley S. Burns
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.91h x 6.15w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9781933202174
ISBN10: 1933202173
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- Technology & Engineering | Mining
- Business & Economics | Industries | Energy
About the Author
Shirley Stewart Burns holds a BS in news-editorial journalism, a master's degree in social work, and a PhD in history with an Appalachian focus. A native of Wyoming County in the southern West Virginia coalfields and the daughter of an underground coal miner, she has a passionate interest in the communities, environment, and histories of the southern West Virginia coalfields. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia. She co-edited Coal Country: Rise Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining with Mary-Lynn Evans and Silas House.