# The Battle of Blair Mountain

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- Authors: [Robert Shogan](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-shogan)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-07-26

## Description

In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners- outraged over years of brutality and exploitation- picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state. For ten days the miners fought a pitched battle against an opposing legion of deputies, state police, and makeshift militia. Only the intervention of a Federal expeditionary force ended this undeclared war. In The Battle of Blair Mountain , Robert Shogan shows this long-neglected slice of American history to be a saga of the conflicting political, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the power structure of twentieth-century America.

## Editions

### The Battle of Blair Mountain

- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6507-773-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2006-07-26
- Language: en_GB