02435nam a22003494a 4500 ebr10202620 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 020712s2003 ncua sb 001 0 eng 2002010880 0807827657 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807854352 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)53932381 n-usa-- TD195.S75 M56 2003eb 338.2/724/0974 21 Montrie, Chad. To save the land and people [electronic resource] : a history of opposition to surface coal mining in Appalachia / Chad Montrie. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. xv, 245 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-240) and index. Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments xi --Abbreviations xiii --Introduction. -- Common People and Private Property 1 --1 Making, Taking, and Stripping the Land 7 --2 Our Country Would BeBetter Fit for Farming: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Ohio 25 --3 Selfish Interests: -- Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Pennsylvania 43 --4 We Feel We Have Been Forsaken: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1954-1967 61 --5 We Will Stop the Bulldozers: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1967-1972 85 -- 6 The Dilemma Is a Classic One: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in West Virginia 107 --7 Liberty in a Wasteland Is Meaningless: Strip Mining Opposition at the Federal Level, 1968-1972 127 --8 Getting More and More Cynical: Decline of the Opposition, 1973-1977 155 --9 Against the Little Man Like Me: Legalized Destruction in the SMCRA Era 181 --Conclusion. -- Having to Fight the Whole System 201 --Notes 207 -- Selected Bibliography 235 -- Index 241. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Strip mining Environmental aspects Appalachian Region. Strip mining Appalachian Region Public opinion. Public opinion Appalachian Region. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10202620 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 119090 119090