{"product_id":"when-miners-march-9781604863000","title":"When Miners March","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the first half of the 20th century, strikes and Union battles, murders and frame-ups, were common in every industrial center in the U.S. But none of these episodes compared in scope to the West Virginia Mine Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe uprisings of coal miners that defined the Mine Wars of the 1920’s were a direct result of the Draconian rule of the coal companies. The climax was the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest open and armed rebellion in U.S. history. The Battle, and Union leader Bill Blizzard’s quest for justice, was only quelled when the U.S. Army brought guns, poison gas and aerial bombers to stop the 10,000 bandanna-clad miners who formed the spontaneous “Red Neck Army.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver half a century ago, William C. Blizzard wrote the definitive insider’s history of the Mine Wars and the resulting trial for treason of his father, the fearless leader of the Red Neck Army. Events dramatized in John Sayles film \u003cem\u003eMatewan\u003c\/em\u003e, and fictionalized in Denise Giardina’s stirring novel \u003cem\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e, are here recounted as they occurred. This is a people’s history, complete with previously unpublished family photos and documents. If it brawls a little, and brags a little, and is angry more than a little, well, the people in this book were that way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William C. Blizzard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48286842716411,"sku":"9781604863000","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781604863000.jpg?v=1772485290","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/when-miners-march-9781604863000","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}