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Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland
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Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

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Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family’s nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so, he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods heritage, but also chronicles a dark and missing chapter in the American experience: the historical nightmare of coal outside of Appalachia, serving as an expose of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Country
United States
Date
24 September 2014
Pages
320
ISBN
9780809333868

Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family’s nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so, he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods heritage, but also chronicles a dark and missing chapter in the American experience: the historical nightmare of coal outside of Appalachia, serving as an expose of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Country
United States
Date
24 September 2014
Pages
320
ISBN
9780809333868