The Industrialist and the Mountaineer

-In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis's book uses this largely forgotten episode as a window into contests over political, environmental, and legal change in turn-of-the-century Appalachia---

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 03/01/2017
ISBN: 9781943665518
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d