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Reckoning at Eagle Creek

by Jeff Biggers
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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 expos' of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.
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Publisher: PublicAffairs

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  • Release date: January 26, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781568586182
  • Release date: January 26, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781568586182
  • File size: 1364 KB
  • Release date: January 26, 2010
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History Nature Nonfiction

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English

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 expos' of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.
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History Nature Nonfiction