| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising. By Robert Shogan. (Boulder: Westview, 2004. xvi, 271 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-8133-4096-9.)

In late August–early September 1921, 10,000 pro-union, southern West Virginia coal miners engaged in a shootout on Blair Mountain in Logan County with about 3,000 anti-union volunteers led by Sheriff Don Chafin. Union miners were inflamed by the August 1 assassination of Sid Hatfield, a pro-union lawman from Matewan in neighboring Mingo County. Hatfield's killing on the courthouse steps in Welch, McDowell County, symbolized the unholy connection between the law and the coal industry. The "miners' army" was determined to liberate Mingo and McDowell counties from the clutches of the coal barons and avenge the deaths of Hatfield and his deputy Ed Chambers, who was shot alongside him. They had to go through Logan County to get there. Only when President Warren G. Harding dispatched 1,000 federal troops to Blair Mountain did the miners put down their arms.

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