LITERATURE
BOOKS BY PAULINE HAGA:
This lady has done a tremendous amount of research on the coal camps in Raleigh, Wyoming, and Fayette Counties.
She is also responsible for the preservation of the church (from Pemberton) and the superintendent's house (from Skelton)
at the Exhibition Mine.
If you would like to order her books you can write her at:
Pauline Haga,
Box 1061,
Crab Orchard, WV 25827
- "Tribute to the Coal Miner, Volume One" - Eccles, Panoramic photos of Raleigh County Miners
- "Tribute to the Coal Miner, Volume Two" - McAlpin, Hotcoal, Tams, Lillybrook
- "Tribute to the Coal Miner, Volume Three"
- "Tribute to the Coal Miner, Volume Four" - Raleigh, Affinity, Stanaford, Wingrove, Hotcoal, others
- "Tribute to the Coal Miner, Volume Five" - Stphenson, Glen Rogers, Kopperston
- COMING SOON: "Tribute to the Coal Miner, Volume Six"
- "Tribute to the Railroader"
- "Schooldays of Yesteryear" - Schools in the coal camps
- "Historical Footprints" - Coal camp post offices
There are also some private printings of books by her at the Raleigh County Public Library, especially "Down on the Gulf," a compilation of her
newspaper articles in the Beckley Post Herald.
OUT OF PRINT BUT WORTH SEARCHING FOR:
- "History of the West Virginia Coal Industry" by Phil Conley (1960) - The inspiration for this site
- "The New River Company" by Robert Craigo(1976)
BOOKS FROM THE C&O HISTORICAL SOCIETY - CLIFTON FORGE, VA:
"Chesapeake & Ohio in the Coal Fields"
"Chesapeake & Ohio, Coal, and Color"
"Coal Mine Directory, October 1950"
OTHER AUTHORS:
George D. Torok - "A Guide To Historic Coal Towns of the Big Sandy River Valley" (The title is a misnomer, as the book actually covers Mingo, McDowell and Logan Counties, as well as Eastern Kentucky and Southwestern Virginia)
H.B. Lee - "Bloodletting in Appalachia" (about UMWA wars, at Amazon)
David Sibray - "Raleigh County 1899-1999: A Century of Pictures"
Jim Wood (Raleigh County history)
Mary Legg Stevenson - "Coal Towns of West Virginia" (at Amazon) and "From Affinity to Winding Gulf"
Melody Bragg - "Window To The Past" series (Fayette County)
Stan Cohen - "King Coal" (subtitled "A Pictorial Heritage of West Virginia Coal Mining")
Dennis Deitz - "The Layland Mine Explosion" - First-hand accounts of the mining disaster at Layland and a second chapter about deep mining at Quinwood, WV. Only $2.00 at Tamarack.
Dr. Stuart McGehee and Eva McGuire - "A Century of Stewardship - The History of Pocahontas Land Corporation" $20.00 at the Eastern Regional Coal Archives in Bluefield; call (304) 325-3943 for details.
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