Reckoning at Eagle Creek
The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Published:30th Sep '14
Should be back in stock very soon
Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family’s nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so, he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods heritage, but also chronicles a dark and missing chapter in the American experience: the historical nightmare of coal outside of Appalachia, serving as an exposé of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.
ISBN: 9780809333868
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 456g
320 pages