Contents
Introduction
1 A Miner’s Lamp
Cymyru
2 A Welsh Coal Miner
3 The First Loco to Run on Rails
4 Two Miners’ Sons
5 The Paths of Blind Horses
Carbon County
6 The Rattle of Dead Men’s Skin
7 Zeph and Maud
8 The Castle Gate
9 The Striking Years
10 Get the Men Out
11 Leaving Carbon
12 Ghost Towns
Bridge
13 A Historical Gap
West Virginia
14 The Little White Chapel
15 One Who Escaped
16 A Memorial
17 Mountains Made Low
18 String-Town Appalachia
19 Squatter on a Gold Mine
Washington, D.C.
20 The Energy Future of America
21 A Drop in the Bucket
22 Yes to Electric Reliability
Coda
23 In the Bowels of the Earth
24 The Last Deep Coal Mine in Wales
25 The Winds of Change
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Sources