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Article: Volume details McDowell County
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- January 10, 1999
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McDowell County stars in native Jean Battlo's "McDowell County in
West Virginia and American History," an attempt at pulling together
a
definitive history of the region. The 576-page book with more than
60 photos is perhaps one of the most thorough works over produced on
an area that Battlo states was "only a whisper of history."
That whisper grew much louder when the Pocahontas coalfields
began
to be developed. The region's coal history is at the core of this
study by Battlo. The history of King Coal between 1895 and 1929, the
years of its greatest impact on McDowell County, composes nearly a
third of the book.
The writer has confined her history chiefly to the 1895-1929 era,
although there ...