Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Mine Wars

West Virginia Mine Wars Museum 2.0

Blair Mountain calls to us. The echoes of the voices of miners & their families call to us. And we—many of us—hear those voices.

The miners of “The Red neck Army” picked up their Winchesters and gathered at Marmet (near Charleston) that summer morning in 1921.

The trial of Sid Hatfield and twenty-two other defendants for the murder of one of the detectives, Albert Felts, began on January 28, 1921.

The Mine Wars Museum partnered with the West Virginia Humanities Council and the Appalachian Community Fund to host the screening.

The Harlan County gun thugs in reality got nothing for their efforts to drive out the UMWA union. Most of them died violent deaths.

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