ABSTRACT

First Published in 2003. This volume charts the history of anthracite coal mining industry and developments around the Josiah White rolling mill in Philadelphia, the Lehigh Coal Mining Company created in 1972 in Pennsylvania, Canal and railroad developments, John Leisenring and Sharpe, Leisenring and Co; and Westmoreland from 1794 to 1999.

chapter |10 pages

Prologue

“There Will Come a Time”

part I|53 pages

Mauch Chunk

chapter 1|8 pages

“A Rock That Burns”

chapter 2|8 pages

A Passage from the Mines

chapter 3|8 pages

Holy Trinity

chapter 4|10 pages

Boy Wonder of the Anthracite

chapter 5|10 pages

Souls in Darkness

chapter 6|8 pages

A Road Not Taken

part II|33 pages

Connellsville

chapter 7|8 pages

The Ambitions of Henry Clay Frick

chapter 8|24 pages

At War in the Coke Fields

part III|107 pages

Big Stone Gap

chapter 9|14 pages

Starting Over

chapter 10|20 pages

The Rise of John L.Lewis

chapter 11|30 pages

Utopia Goes Union

chapter 12|22 pages

Be Careful What You Wish For

chapter 13|20 pages

Prelude to Murder

part IV|49 pages

To the Powder River

chapter 14|22 pages

The Age of Uncertainty

chapter 15|14 pages

Riding the Roller Coaster

chapter 16|12 pages

Nowhere to Hide

chapter |10 pages

Epilogue

A Hyacinth Blooms at Imboden