Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The Panorama of American Life & History
Author: Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Annual Report of the Minnesota Historical Society, to the Legislature of Minnesota, for the Year ...
Author: Minnesota Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Annual Report of the Minnesota Historical Society to the Legislature of Minnesota
Author: Minnesota Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Proceedings of the Oregon Historical Society Including ... the Quarterly Meetings of the Board of Directors, and the ... Annual Meeting of the Members of the Society ... 1899-1905
Author: Oregon Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
British Museum
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the State Convention of North Carolina
Author: North Carolina. ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Henry Clay Frick and the Golden Age of Coal and Coke, 1870-1920
Author: Cassandra VivianPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476639809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Once the beehive coke oven was perfected in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the coal and coke industry began to flourish and supply other fledgling industries with the fuel they needed to succeed. The thrust of this growth came from Henry Clay Frick, who opened his first coal mines in the Morgan Valley of Fayette County in 1871. There, he helped lead the industry, making it the major developmental force in industrial America. This book traces the birth and growth of the early coal and coke industry from 1870 to 1920, primarily in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties. Beyond Frick's importance to the industry, other major topics covered in this history include the lives and struggles of the miners and immigrants who worked in the industry, the growth of unions and the many strikes in the region, and the attempts to clean the surrounding waterways from the horrific pollution that resulted from industrial development. Perhaps the most significant fact is that this book uses primary sources contemporary with the golden age of the coal and coke industry. That effort offers an alternative view and helps repair the common portrayal of Frick as corrupt by showing his work as that of an industrial genius.