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Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

hardcover – January 26, 2010
by Biggers, Jeff
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ISBN-13: 9781568584218 ISBN-10: 1568584210
Publisher
Nation Books
Binding
hardcover
Published
January 26, 2010
Weight
1.0 lbs
Dimensions
23.90×3.00×16.50 cm

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Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland by Biggers, Jeff. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781568584218.

Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his familys 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.