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Dwight Harshbarger
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Witness at Hawks Nest |
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English |
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Paperback |
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267 |
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2009-08-01 |
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0984075720 |
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Mid-Atlantic Highlands Publishing |
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0.45 pounds |
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5.67 x 0.0 x 8.62 inches |
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1st |
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Product Description
1930: the Great Depression. Twenty-five cent an hour jobs attract thousands of men to West Virginia, two-thirds of them black, to drill Union Carbide's Hawks Nest tunnel through near-solid rock. Within months, men fall ill and die of a mysterious illness tunnelitis company doctors call it. Lacking respiratory protection, at least 800, possibly over 1,500, workers will die of acute silicosis in America's worst industrial disaster. Orville Orr, a company-paid deputy sheriff secures the first autopsy of a tunnel worker and builds evidence of the company's responsibility for the deaths. Armen, the mixed-race daughter of a tunnel worker and union organizer who has died of silicosis, joins him and they fall in love, as Orville risks his life to expose the truth.
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