# Coal Country

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- Book: [Coal Country](https://www.bookquiver.com/shirley-stewart-burns/coal-country) ([Coal Country.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/shirley-stewart-burns/coal-country.md))
- Authors: [Shirley Stewart Burns](https://www.bookquiver.com/shirley-stewart-burns), [Mari-Lynn Evans](https://www.bookquiver.com/mari-lynn-evans), [Silas House](https://www.bookquiver.com/silas-house)
- Publisher: counterpoint
- ISBN: 978-15-7805-166-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2009-11-24
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the long, complex history of coal exploitation in Appalachia, mountaintop–removal (MTR) mining is the most destructive practice yet visited upon the land and its people: Ancient forested mountainsides...