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By: Vicki Smith, Associated Press
MORGANTOWN (AP).- Some of the bloodiest and most important moments in the American labor movement happened in the coalfields of southern West Virginia. But most who live beyond its rugged mountains, and even many who live in them, don't know the stories. Doug Estepp is trying to change that, one busload of tourists at a time. Estepp grew up in a coal mining family in Mingo County but never heard much about the early 20th century "mine wars" as a child. The term covers many events in the long, violent struggle to unionize: a deadly gunfight on the streets of Matewan; the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War in the woods above Blair; the firing of machine guns from an armor-plated train on striking miners and their families in the Holly Grove tent colony. Estepp set read full article
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