Notes on Sources
History of Coal River Part 1:
Hufford, Mary, curator, Tending the Commons. “Landscape and History at the Headwaters of the Big Coal River Valley: An Overview.” The Library of Congress: American Memory Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia. From the Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/tending/. 8.
Wood, Jim. Raleigh County, West Virginia. Raleigh County Historical Society. BJW Printing and Office Supplies: Beckley, Wv 1994.
History of Coal River Part 2:
Freese, Barbara. Coal, A Human History. Cambridge: Perseus Publishing. 2003.
Hufford, Mary, curator, Tending the Commons. “Landscape and History at the Headwaters of the Big Coal River Valley: An Overview.” The Library of Congress: American Memory Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia. From the Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/tending/.
Rasmussen, Barbara. Absentee Landowning & Exploration in West Virginia, 1760 – 1920. University Press of Kentucky Press.1994.
Ross, Bill. Interviewed by Jen Osha. November 6, 2008. Aurora Lights.
Savage, Lon. Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-1921. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1990.
Schnayerson, Michael. Coal River. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2008.
Outmigration:
Hufford, Mary, curator, Tending the Commons. “Landscape and History at the Headwaters of the Big Coal River Valley: An Overview.” The Library of Congress. American Memory Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia. From the Library of Congress,http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/tending/.
Jarrell, Debbie. Interviewed by Jen Osha. November 5, 2008. Aurora Lights.
Meadows, James. Interviewed by Jen Osha. December 4, 2008. Aurora Lights.
Nelson, Chuck. Interviewed by Jen Osha. November 21, 2008. Aurora Lights.
Wood, Jim. Raleigh County, West Virginia. Raleigh County Historical Society. BJW Printing and Office Supplies: Beckley, Wv.1994.
Lifestyle Changes:
Cottrell, Kenny. Interviewed by Jen Osha. November 19, 2008. Aurora Lights.
Hufford, Mary, curator, Tending the Commons. “Landscape and History at the Headwaters of the Big Coal River Valley: An Overview.” The Library of Congress: American Memory Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia. From the Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/tending/. 25.
Meadows, James. Interviewed by Jen Osha. December 4, 2008. Aurora Lights.
Pettry, Phil. Interview by Mary Hufford. November 21, 1997. The Library of Congress: American Memory Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia. From the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/tending/.
Ross, Mark. Interviewed by Jen Osha. November 6, 2008. Aurora Lights.
Wiley, Ed. Interviewed by Jen Osha. Summer 2008. Aurora Lights.
Barrett, Quentin. “How Land Companies Formed and How they Function.” Interviewed by Mary Hufford, December 4, 1996. Tending the Commons, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
Bradford, Rick. Interviewed by Jen Osha. November 21, 2008. Aurora Lights.
Gaventa, John. "The Political Economy of Land Tenure: Appalachia and the Southeast." Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison Press. 1995.
Rasmussen, Barbara. Absentee Landowning & Exploration in West Virginia, 1760 – 1920. University Press of Kentucky Press. 1994.
Wood, Jim. Raleigh County, West Virginia. Raleigh County Historical Society. BJW Printing and Office Supplies: Beckley, Wv. 1994.
Coal River Mountain:
Current Land Use:
Bonds, Judy. Interviewed by Jen Osha. Aurora Lights.
Haltom, Vernon. Interviewed by Jen Osha. Aurora Lights.
Community Land Use:
Boyer, Jefferson C. “Reinventing the Appalachian Commons,” in The Global Idea of ‘the Commons’. Edited by Donald M. Nonini, 89-114. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008.
Halstead, Randy. Interviewed by Mary Huffard. October 26, 1995. The Library of Congress: American Memory Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia. From the Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/tending/.
Hufford, Mary. 2009. Ethnographic Overview and Assessment, New River National River and Gauley River National Recreation Area. Boston: National Park Service. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/center/NGR_report_final.pdf
Hufford, Mary. 1998. "Weathering the Storm: Cultural Survival in an Appalachian Valley." In An Appalachian Tragedy: Air Pollution and Tree Death in the Eastern Forests of North America, eds. Harvard Ayres, Jenny Hager, and Charles Little. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, pp. 146-159.http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/faculty/mhufford/Weathering.pdf
Ross, Betty. Interviewed by Jen Osha. November 6, 2008. Aurora Lights.
Thompson, Ernie. Interviewed by Jen Osha. Aurora Lights.
Underground Mining:
Meadows, Jimmy. Interviewed by Jen Osha. December 4, 2009. Aurora Lights.
Forest Resources and Timbering:
The Brushy Fork Slurry Impoundment:
Thompson, Ernie. Interviewed by Jen Osha. Aurora Lights
Definitions:
Burns, Shirley Stewart. “Bringing Down the Mountains: the Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities” Morgantown: West Virginia University Press. 2007.
Hufford, Mary. 2009. “Mountaintop Removal.” Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy Vol. II. Eds. J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman. Detroit: Gale. Pp. 63-68.
Wind Versus MTR for Coal River Mountain: The Economic Debate:
Downstream Strategies, "The Long-Term Economic Benefits of Wind versus Mountaintop Removal Coal on Coal River Mountain," West Virginia," (2008), p. 45.
Downstream Strategies, p. 1.
Downstream Strategies, p. 35.
Downstream Strategies, p. viii.
The Coal River Wind Campaign:
Downstream Strategies. "The Long-Term Economic Benefits of Wind vs. Mountaintop Removal Coal on Coal River Mountain, West Virginia" (2008), p. 15.
Energy Information Administration, "Net Generation by State by Type of Producer by Energy Source." Available here.
Downstream Strategies, p. viii.
Introduction to Coal River Wind:
Reece, Erik.
Lost Mountain, A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip-Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia. New York: Riverhead Books (2006), p. 202.