Coal Bloom Selected Bibliography


Bowman, Reference Book of Wyoming County (McClain Printing, Parsons, WV 1965)

 Archer, Bill, Coal Heritage Trail, Wonderful West Virginia magazine, Jan. 2000

 Barker, Connie Baisden, Growing Up in a West Virginia Coal Camp, http://www.angelfire.com/wv2/coalcamp/

 Bordages, Asa, Cape Gloucester, Collier’s Weekly (May 26, 1945)

 Burdette, Cody, Recalling the Great Depression: Hard times on a hillside farm, Goldenseal (Winter 1993)

 Cabbell, Edward J., Where could I go but to the Lord? Shape-note singing among blacks in southern West Virginia, Goldenseal Winter 1981.

 Coal Road, The, A Survey for the Southern West Virginia Mining Tourism Potential, Marshall University Center for Regional Progress (March 1989).

 Clemens, Martin, Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher’s Story (Naval Institute Press 1998)

 Cohen, Stan, King Coal: A Pictorial Heritage of West Virginia Coal Mining (Quarrier Press 1984).

 Conley, Phil, History of the West Virginia Coal Industry (1960)

 Cook, Charles, The Battle of Cape Esperance: Encounter at Guadalcanal (United States Naval Institute 1992)

 Coombe, Jack D., Derailing the Tokyo Express: The Naval Battles for the Solomon Islands That Sealed Japan’s Fate (Stackpole Books 1991)

Crenshaw, Russell Sydnor, South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf (United States Naval Institute 1998)

Corbin, David, Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coalfields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922  (University of Illinois Press 1981)

Davis, Burke, Marine! The Life of Lieutenant General Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller (Little, Brown Company 1962)

Davis, Russell, Marine at War (Scholastic Book Services 1961)

Dixon, Thomas W., Jr., Appalachian Coal Mines & Railroads

Feuer, A.B., Ed. Coast Watching in the Solomon Islands: The Bougainville Reports, December 1941-July 1943  (Praeger Publishers, 1992)

Frank, Richard B., Guadalcanal (Random House: New York, 1990)

French, William W., Maryat Lee’s EcoTheater: A Theater for the 21st Century (West Virginia University Press 1998) 

Garand, George, and Truman Strobridge, History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II (Historical Divisions, HQMC, 1971)

Giesen, Carol, Coal Miners’ Wives: Portraits of Endurance (University of Kentucky Press 1995)

Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars, Ken Sullivan, Ed. (Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Charleston, WV 1991)

Goode, James B., Coal Camp Database, http://www.coaleducation.org/coalhistory/coaltowns/introduction_to_coal_camp.htm

Goralski, Robert, World War II Almanac, 1931-1945 (New York: Bonanza Books)

Gorczyka, Beth, “Southern West Virginia tries to mine tourists,” Bluefield Herald-Dispatch, Jan. 25, 2001

Grace, James W., Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: Night Action, 13 November 1942 (United States Naval Institute 1999)

Greene, Janet W., Strategies for Survival: Women’s Work in the Southern West Virginia Coal Camps, W. Va. History, Vol. 49 (1990)

Griffin, Lucille, Battling the blight: A second chance for the American Chestnut, Goldenseal Winter 1995

Gustagallozzi, Paul, My line of work: Interview by Norman Julian. Goldenseal Spring 1982

Hadsell, Richard M., and William E. Coffey, From Law and Order to Class Warfare: Baldwin-Felts Detectives in the Southern West Virginia Coal  Fields, West Virginia History, p. 268-286, Spring 1979

Haga, Pauline, Memories of Mark Twain High School, Goldenseal Fall 1999

Haga, Pauline, Tribute to the Coal Miner Vol. 1 – 6 (privately published)

Hallas, James H., The Devil’s Anvil, The Assault on Peleliu Island (Praeger Publishers 1944)

Halsey, David, Otsego: Remembering a Wyoming County Coal Camp, Goldenseal Summer 2000.

Hammel, Eric, Guadalcanal: The Carrier Battles: Carrier Operations in the Solomons, August-October, 1942 (Pacifica Press 1987)

Hammel, Eric, Starvation Island (Pacifica Press 1988)

Harr, Milton, The C.C.C. Camps in West Virginia: A Record of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Mountain State, 1933-1942  (19 )

Hoyt, Edwin P., The Glory of the Solomons (Stein & Day, 1983)

Hoyt, Edwin P., Guadalcanal (Stein & Day, New York: 1982)

Hunt, George P., Coral Comes High (Harper & Brothers, 1946)

Johnston, James, The Long Road of War (University f Nebraska Press 1988)

Jones, Mary Harris “Mother”, The Autobiography of Mother Jones, Ayer Co Pub. (Reprint ed. 1969)

Joyce, Stephanie, Major Issues in Miners’ Health, Environ. Health Perspectives Vol. 106, No 11 (Nov. 1998)

 Keeney, L. Douglas, This Is Guadalcanal: The Original Combat Photography (Quill 1999)

 Kimmel, Eric, Starvation Island: Guadalcanal (Cone Publishers: New York, 1987).

 Koburger, Charles W., Pacific Turning Point: The Solomons Campaign, 1942-1943 ( Praeger 1995)

Leckie, Robert, Challenge for the Pacific: The Bloody Six-Month Battle of Guadalcanal  (Doubleday 1965)

Leckie, Robert, Helmet for My Pillow (I Books 2001)

Lee, Howard B., The Burning Springs and Other Tales of the Little Kanawha (West Virginia University Press 1968).

Lewis, Ronald L., Scotts Run: An Introduction, West Virginia History Magazine Vol. 53, pp. 1-6  (1994)

Lunt, Richard D., Law & Order Vs. The Miners: West Virginia 1906-1933 (Appalachian Editions 1992)

McGee, William, The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville—Pacific War Turning Point

Meader, Michael, The Redneck War of 1921, Goldenseal April/June 1981

McMillan, George, The Old Breed (Infantry Journal Press, 1949)

Means, Lawrence, The "Raggedy-Assed" Marines Are On Parade (Wildwood Publishing: North Bend, OR: 1995).

Miller, Bill, Jr., in Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (Koneky & Koneky, 1949)

Miller, Danny L., The Miller Families of Ashe County, NC (privately published, undated)

Montell, W.L., Killings: Folk Justice in the upper South (University of Kentucky Press 1986).

National Coal Heritage Area website, http://www.coalheritage.org/Interpretive.pdf

Richter, Don, Where the Sun Stood Still, Toucan Publishing, Agoura, CA: 1992.

Ross, Bill, Tragic Triumph (Random House 1991)

Savage, Lon, Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War 1920-221 (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 1990).

 Shambaugh, Helen Bradfield, Apple Butter Time, Goldenseal Fall 2001

 Sibray, David, Raleigh County 1899-1999: A Century of Pictures (out of print)

 Sledge, Eugene B., With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (Presidio Press, 1981)

 Smith, Kathy Mays, Camp Wyoming: Gold Medal CCC Company 1538 (2002)

 Spector, Ronald, Eagle Against the Sun (Random House 1985)

Stevenson, Mary Legg, Coal Towns of West Virginia (Quarrier Press, Kuly 1998)

Stevenson, Mary Legg, From Affinity to Winding Gulf

Tams, Major W.P., The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia (West Virginia University Press 1983)

Vandegrift, General A.A., Once a Marine: Memoirs (Norton & Co: New York 1964)

Western Pacific Operations, Vol. 4, History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II (USMC Publication)

Zimmerman, Major John L., Marines in World War II,  Historical Monograph, USMCR Historical Section (1949), reprinted at http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Guadalcanal.html