Munitions in Industrial Warfare
New Deal
How far were the companies willing to go to stop the miners? Chemical weapons.
All That Stolen Dynamite
Dynamite
Theft
The old saying, “stole everything that wasn’t nailed down” didn’t apply to the bootleggers, because they stole that too.
Everything is Green Now — Anthracite Unite
Bitcoin mining at local power plants is not what we need. A current-events piece I wrote for Anthracite Unite.
Bootleg Mine Map of Northumberland County (1937)
ACIC
Kulpmont
Maps
Mount Carmel
Northumberland County
Shamokin
Trevorton
A 1937 government commission used an airplane and team of unemployed miners to map the coal holes of Northumberland County.
Bootleg Mine Map of Schuylkill County (1937)
Anthracite Coal Industry Commission
Centralia
Mahanoy City
Map
Minersville
Pottsville
Schuylkill County
A 1937 government commission used an airplane and team of unemployed miners to map the coal holes of Schuylkill County.
The Women Were Always In On It
1902
Coal & Iron Police
Lattimer
Tower City
Women worked the coal holes, above ground and below. That’s not all they did.
Who's in the book?
Branchdale
Forestville
Genealogy
Lansford
Mahanoy City
Minersville
Mount Carmel
Pottsville
Shamokin
A town-by-town list of the most prominent miners, truckers, and community leaders quoted in the book.
A High-Speed Wagon Chase
1902
1903
Exchange
Mount Carmel
Northumberland County
Union Coal Company
In 1903 a Mount Carmel bootlegger was caught red-handed, but he wasn’t going down without a fight.
Standing Down the Police
Coal & Iron Police
Edgwood
Showdown
Trevorton
One story of many in which the bootleg miners fought off the Coal & Iron Police
How to Learn if Your Family Bootlegged Coal
Accidents
Draft
Genealogy
Gowen City
PA Dutch
I didn’t know my many were bootleggers until I started this book. Here’s how you can find out.