LITERATURE
Carmen DiCiccio -
Coal and Coke In Pennsylvania
Muriel E. Sheppard -
Cloud by Day-Mostly focuses on Connellsville Coke District
Dennis F. Brestensky -
The Early Coke Worker-Again, focusing on Connellsville Coke District
Bobby Salitrik - Coal
Mines, Coke Yards & Company Stores, Families of the Patch
Ralph Rosendale &
Tim Hroblak - A Coal Vein in Our Veins-Focuses on the Colonial mines
around Smock, PA.
Lonnie Miller -
Robena Photographs, Cumberland Mine Fire, Warwick Coal
Mines; Marianna and Mine No. 58 - books focusing on Greene and Washington County
John A. Enman, PhD. - Another Time, Another World - Pennsylvania Bituminous coal, Coke, and Communities -
Margaret M. Mulrooney -
A Legacy of Coal: The Coal Company Towns of Southwestern
Pennsylvania-Histories of Star Junction, Windber, Colver, and other facts
and observations about coal towns.
Regis M. Maher, M.D. -
Patches of History...The 1920's & 1930's: Heyday of Fayette County Coal
& Coke in Pennsylvania-The title says it all.
Kenneth Warren -
Wealth, Waste, and Alienation - Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke
Industry - A fascinating read.
James D. Sisler - Bituminous Coal Fields of Pennsylvania-Originally published in 1926
Diane Morgan - Daniels Rogers Davidson - About the founder of the Davidson mine, near Connellsville, written by
his great grandaughter.