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My Appalachia Pipestem State Park Today and Yesterday By Howard B. Lee DJ
My Appalachia Pipestem State Park Today and Yesterday By Howard B. Lee DJ SIGNED
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
The Sequel to Bloodletting in Appalachia
Copyright 1971
SIGNED
186 Pages
This book is a sequel to Bloodletting in Appalachia. In that book the territory known as "Appalachia" is described as. . . the vast mountainous region within and adjacent to the Appalachian Mountain System. It embraces both the Blue Ridge and Allegheny ranges, and extends in a southwesterly direction from northern New York into northern Alabama.
West Virginia is at the geographical center of this mountain area, and my county of Mercer lies along the State's southern border, with Bluefield and Princeton as its principal cities.
When the Bloodletting in Appalachia manuscript was finished, I still had much unused material in my diary and newspaper clippings. A review of that leftover material convinced me that it, too, merited preservation. Thus this book, My Appalachia, was born. Like Bloodletting in Appalachia, it also is a factual book. Every incident recorded in it is told just as it happened-without enlargement or embellishment.
This is the third book in my Appalachia Trilogy. The other two are The Burning Springs and Other Tales of the Little Kanawha, 1968; and Bloodletting in Appalachia, 1969. Together, the three books cover a period of 150 years of local Appalachia history. They should be read together.
This book is in three parts, with an appendix.
Part One tells of the evolution of the State's magnificent Pipestem Park from an inhospitable wilderness, inhabited mostly by moonshiners and bootleggers, of the disregard of the local mountaineers for the Prohibition laws, and of a few murders in the area. It also describes some of my personal experiences and observations as Prosecuting Attorney in my efforts at Prohibition enforcement in my county of Mercer.
Part Two tells of political campaigning in the mountains, of the involvement of imported Negro miners in politics, of the lynching of an innocent man by a crazed mob, of the "Black Hand" in Mercer County, of Nancy Elizabeth (Mrs. Cap) Hatfield (a real "Mountain Queen"), of how mistaken identity almost caused an innocent man to be hanged, of the rise and continuation of the "Kee Political Dynasty" in the State's southern mountains, and of other actual happenings in Appalachia-incidents in which I was either a participant or an observer.
Part Three tells of the many "petty rackets" of the early coal operators, of mine explosions, of roving pickets, how death constantly stalks the miners, and many heretofore unpublished incidents in the coal fields.
It all adds up to interesting local history of my small sector of Appalachia.
The Appendix is made up of five addresses made by me at various times and places.
I gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to the Reverend Clifford M. Lewis, S.J., Assistant to the President of Wheeling College, Wheeling, West Virginia, for his scholarly work in editing the manuscript of this book. He also edited the manuscripts of my other two books of the trilogy.
Acknowledgments for the photographs are duly made with each illustration.
Howard B. Lee
Charleston, West Virginia
Stuart, Florida
June 1, 1971
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