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Fascinating and informative. Lewis has crafted a thoroughly researched, well-written, and lively narrative account that uses one violent event-and all it set into motion-to show how old Civil War conflicts were rekindled, how increasingly marginalized farmer-loggers attempted to challenge corporate power, and especially how control of courts and local governance were central instruments in this epic struggle. - Dwight Billings, University of Kentucky A welcome addition to the study of industrial Appalachia. Through the lives of Eastham and Thompson, Ronald L. Lewis provides a strong sense of how the 'incorporation of America' unfolded at the local level. Bruce E. Stewart, Appalachian State University

Fascinating and informative. Lewis has crafted a thoroughly researched, well-written, and lively narrative account that uses one violent event-and all it set into motion-to show how old Civil War conflicts were rekindled, how increasingly marginalized farmer-loggers attempted to challenge corporate power, and especially how control of courts and local governance were central instruments in this epic struggle. - Dwight Billings, University of Kentucky A welcome addition to the study of industrial Appalachia. Through the lives of Eastham and Thompson, Ronald L. Lewis provides a strong sense of how the 'incorporation of America' unfolded at the local level. Bruce E. Stewart, Appalachian State University

A welcome addition to the study of industrial Appalachia. Through the lives of Eastham and Thompson, Ronald L. Lewis provides a strongsense of how the incorporation of America unfolded at the local level. Bruce E. Stewart, Appalachian State University

“Fascinating and informative. Lewis has crafted a thoroughly researched, well-written, and lively narrative account that uses one violent event—and all it set into motion—to show how old Civil War conflicts were rekindled, how increasingly marginalized farmer-loggers attempted to challenge corporate power, and especially how control of courts and local governance were central instruments in this epic struggle.” - Dwight Billings, University of Kentucky “A welcome addition to the study of industrial Appalachia. Through the lives of Eastham and Thompson, Ronald L. Lewis provides a strong sense of how the ‘incorporation of America’ unfolded at the local level.” Bruce E. Stewart, Appalachian State University

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Ronald L. Lewis is Stuart and Joyce Robbins Chair and Professor of History Emeritus at West Virginia University where he taught for many years.  He is the author of several books, including Aspiring to Greatness: West Virginia University since World War II (published by WVU Press) and Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. He lives in Morgantown, WV.

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