The Martyr Made Podcast #22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction
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Transformation of Appalachia
- In 1912, Southern Appalachia experienced rapid social, cultural, and economic change.
- The isolated mountain communities, once self-sufficient, faced upheaval with the arrival of coal and railroad companies.
Tug Valley Life
- Tug Valley residents owned small, self-sufficient farms and lived a pre-modern lifestyle.
- Their economy fostered a sense of community, with extensive bartering and shared tasks.
Customary vs. Legal Culture
- Appalachia's legal system reflected its oral culture, with disputes settled based on community consensus and customary law, not legal technicalities.
- Local leaders acted as community members, not distant authority figures.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
The Hatfield Mc Coy Feud Podcast
02:15 • 3min
Jockey's New Hunting Line
04:59 • 2min
Who Is America?
07:13 • 4min
Canada and Northern Mexico by Robert Woodward
11:30 • 3min
The American Borderlanders Combative Culture
14:58 • 3min
The Util Valley
18:19 • 3min
The People of Appalachia
21:22 • 3min
The Subsistence Economy of the Ugly Valley
24:19 • 4min
Local Government, Not a Government of Laws
28:13 • 5min
When the Civil War Was Over, There Was Another Civil War Coming
33:22 • 5min
What Does the Contract Say? And Where's the Proof?
38:46 • 6min
The People of Apalachia, the People of the Hills
44:29 • 5min
The Company Owned the School and Hired the Ministers
49:51 • 3min
A Brief History of a Coal Mining Village
53:00 • 3min
The Coal Company Owns All the Houses
55:33 • 6min
Coal Mines - The Coal Company's Own Store
01:01:12 • 5min
Logan County, West Virginia - The United Mine Workers Union
01:06:19 • 3min
The Power of the Mining Companies in West Virginia
01:09:36 • 3min
Coal - A System That Prevents the Colonization of the World
01:12:41 • 4min
The Power of the Miners
01:16:35 • 2min
The U M W Strikes Midwestern Coal Fields
01:19:04 • 5min
Unionization of the Midwestern Coal Fields
01:24:33 • 3min
The United Mine Workers of America and the West Virginia Mines
01:27:29 • 5min
The Baldwin Feels Guards in West Virginia
01:32:50 • 2min
The West Virginia Coal Miners Revolt
01:34:58 • 4min
The Ludlow Massacres
01:38:28 • 3min
The Killing of an Italian Miner
01:41:28 • 2min
The Coal Miners Are Tough People, and They're Going Up There to Kill Them
01:43:43 • 5min
A Little Old Lady in Conawa County, West Virginia, Was Born on the Morning Train
01:48:41 • 3min
Mother Jones, a Woman of the American Dream
01:51:24 • 6min
A Woman's Journey Through the Mines
01:56:59 • 5min
Mother Jones, a Miner's Daughter
02:01:51 • 5min
Mother Jones's Voice Rocked People
02:07:04 • 5min
The Secrets of the Miners of Mucklow
02:11:59 • 6min
Mother Jones Addressed a Mass Meeting on the Levee in Charleston
02:17:32 • 2min
Then Mother Jones Swayed Her Hearers
02:19:55 • 2min
Mine Guards - I'm 80 Years Old
02:21:54 • 5min
Frank Keeney and the Miners Strike
02:26:48 • 2min
Organize Us, Mother
02:29:11 • 5min
Mother's Speeches and the Breaking of the Creek
02:34:04 • 5min
Mother Jones - A Socialist Activist
02:39:25 • 2min
Conawa County's Coal Miners Are Agitated, and They're Going to Die Alone
02:41:48 • 3min
What Happened to the Mine Guards?
02:44:41 • 5min
The Miners' Strike Breakers - A Memoir
02:50:00 • 2min
The Miners' Tent Cities
02:52:21 • 3min
The Bull Move Special
02:55:42 • 2min
The Bullmoose Special - The Story of the Night
02:57:23 • 2min
The Train Whispers and the Gunshots Continue
02:59:41 • 4min
The Death Train of West Virginia
03:04:09 • 3min
Governor Hatfield - A New Governor
03:06:46 • 3min
Mother Jones Meets Governor Henry Hatfield
03:10:12 • 4min
The Paint Creek Cabin Creek Strike in West Virginia Changed Everything
03:14:23 • 3min
Mining Companies Have Lost a Ton on Company Housing
03:17:15 • 3min
The United Mine Workers of America - A Great Concoction
03:19:57 • 5min
The Trade Union Movement Is Our Very Life
03:25:09 • 3min
Black and White Miners and the Mining Industry
03:28:22 • 5min
Sid Hatfield's Story
03:33:42 • 5min
'Sid Hatfield'
03:38:55 • 3min
Coal Miners in West Virginia Did Not Go on Strike
03:41:32 • 3min
The Miner's Strike
03:44:07 • 5min
The Mayor of Baldwinfelts Wants to Kill the Miners, and So Sid Says, We'll Sit a Hatfield
03:48:58 • 5min
The Battle of Matean
03:53:34 • 3min
Sid and the Miners - A History of the Coal Mines
03:56:15 • 5min
The Mingo County Mine Workers of America
04:01:05 • 3min
Coal Miners of Mingo County
04:03:40 • 5min
The Battle of Maitan
04:08:46 • 2min
Tent Colonies of Miners
04:11:14 • 5min
Felts Wanted Sid Hatfield to Die
04:16:23 • 5min
Those Boys Are Going to Sacrifice You
04:21:13 • 2min
Miners Glared at Charles Lively's Testimony
04:23:36 • 5min
Tom Phelts and the Local Community
04:28:43 • 5min
The Governor of West Virginia Is in Full Panic Mode
04:33:33 • 3min
Martial Law and the Miners Trial
04:36:16 • 3min
Sid's Indicted Again
04:39:25 • 4min
The Shooting of Ed Chambers
04:43:44 • 3min
Coal Mining in West Virginia
04:46:22 • 5min
The Miners of West Virginia - A Memoir
04:51:34 • 3min
The Battle of Blair Mountain
04:54:10 • 5min
Keeney and the Miners Swung a Taxi in Front of It.
04:59:07 • 2min
The Miners' March Home - A Memoir
05:01:33 • 5min
General Bandheles, General Pershing, General Bandhols
05:06:34 • 5min
The Battle of Blair Mountain
05:11:25 • 6min
The Battle of Logantown
05:17:27 • 4min
The Battle of Blair Mountain
05:21:24 • 6min
I Was Bono Man Smaten My Home.
05:27:07 • 6min
In August 1921, 10,000-20,000 armed coal miners marched on Mingo County, West Virginia to lift the martial law imposed there, free their jailed brethren, and avenge the assassination of one of their local heroes. At least 20,000 more wives, young boys and other civilians followed the army providing medical, logistical and other services. Before it was over, they would storm a mountainside under fire from entrenched machine guns, and while being bombed from the air. It was the largest and most serious armed insurrection in US history since the Civil War. This episode is going to discuss the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, and The Battle of Blair Mountain.
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