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When Past Met Present: Vintage Colorado Short Stories ed. by James B. Hemesath

Book Reviews 309 scout Jim Beckwourth, Brigham Young, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, and Mariano Vallejo. But the bulk of the selections comes from diarists or letter writers who have little or no fame but whose varied backgrounds ereate a gripping diversity of incident, detail, and perspective: reports by or about common miners, criminals, clergy, doctors, high-born and educated travelers, Europeans, Mexicans, Chileans, Blacks, Chinese, Japanese, Jews, Indians. There are fond memories recorded as well as bitter memories, admi­ ration and horror, humor and tragedy. It is difficult to summarize such variety except to say that this collec­ tion is, in parvo, a kind of gold rush itself. In it, truth once again has outrun fiction. It is hardly necessary to reinvent or reimagine a phenomenon with such a rich and real historical and biographical diversity as this collection demonstrates, that has yet been so slightly tapped. W hen P a st M et Present: Vintage Colorado Short Stories. Edited by James B. Hemesath. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1997. 191 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Jam es H . M aguire Boise State University In 1994, James B. Hemesath compiled a sampling of Colorado fiction and titled it Where Past Meets Present: Modem Colorado Short Stories; now, in the book under review, he gives us a companion volume. Comprised of thirteen stories, the new collection begins with a brief introduction by the editor and is then framed by two poems: John Van M ale’s “The National Western Stock Show” (1933) and Alan Swallow’s “Ghost Town: Night” (1946). Far better than the framing poems, the stories “explore the Centennial State from the late nineteenth century, through the Great Depression and World War II, and into the cold war era of the 1950s” (ix). The authors include “well-known, little-known, and ‘discovery’ literary per­ sonages,” namely, Sanora Babb, Verlin Cassil (R. V. Cassill), Marie Chay, John Fante, Steve Frazee, Joe Hansen, William M. John, Florence Crannell Means, Damon Runyon, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Bert Stiles, Chauncey Thomas, and Frank X. Tolbert. In theme and subject matter, the stories resemble more famous fiction by western writers from other states. Joe Hansen’s “Donovan and Gary” calls to mind depression-era western works such as John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle, Tillie Olsen’s Yonnondio, and Frederick Manfred’s The Golden Bowl. Wilbur Daniel Steele’s “Survivor” is similar to some of Willa Cather’s sto­ ries about struggling artists. Chauncey Thomas’s “Why the Hot Sulphur Mail Was Late” strikes me as being like Eugene Manlove Rhodes’s Paso Por Aqui. Although a native Coloradoan like me does not like to admit it, the literary quality of these thirteen Colorado stories does not surpass (and in 310 WAL 3 3 (3 ) Fa l l 1998 most cases fails to match) the quality of similar western works. Hemesath obviously knows of some better Colorado stories, for he dedicates When Past Met Present to Jean Stafford. None of her work appears in his book, however, presumably because, as Hemesath notes, her Collected Stories has “been reprinted by the University of Texas Press at Austin” (x). Still, since Hemesath excerpted parts of novels to make up several of his selections, one wonders why he chose not to include excerpts from novels such as Upton Sinclair’s King Coal or Frank Waters’s Pike’s Peak. Perhaps obstacles such as exorbitant permission fees made some choices virtually impossible. Whatever the ideal anthology might be, Hemesath has compiled an interesting collection with some memorable stories. Sanora Babb’s “That Presence Out There” hauntingly evokes a strange childhood encounter on Colorado’s southern plains. John Fante’s “In the Spring” captures a moment of discovery in the tragicomedy known as adolescence. Damon Runyon’s “My Father” rivals the period’s best western comedy (as, for example, in works by Alfred Henry Lewis). Hemesath’s greatest achievement lies in having assembled stories with such a rich variety of subjects, characters, and settings. From a dirt dugout to a sculptor’s studio, from Hispanic villagers to a girl homesick for China, When Past Met Present brings to life the Colorado of the years from about 1890 to 1960, a...

She Walks These Hills (review)

Kathryn Stripling Byer. "I hoe/this earth until I think of nothing/but the beans I will string/the sweet corn I will grind into meal." Coal was still king in 1980 when these verses were first collected, and many of the poems bear the mark of that dominance. In "3 A.M. Train," "it seems," to Gail Amburgey, "as though/the railroad cars/are loading up souls/along with the coal./Souls of dead miners that owe their essence/to that life-giving cinder." Russell Maraño describes "Flora," "Husband killed by company mines,/evicted from company house." In "The Last Unmined Vein," Lee Howard writes "Now my daddy and me/we used to dig a little coal/out of that vein across the bottom." Like Jean Ritchie's song "Black Waters," these poems have lost none of their power now that King Coal has been dethroned. Instead their power is heightened because the terrible destruction wreaked by coal has proven to be for naught. Old Wounds, New Words is a tribute to the Appalachian Poetry Project, to the ninety-one poets who contributed, and to the Jesse Stuart Foundation which published the collection in a handsome paperback edition. Yet as Gurney Norman notes in his dedication, the book is also a tribute "to the twenty million people of the Appalachian Region of North America." As George Ella Lyon carefully explains in the introduction , "Through intense selectivity in imagery, in rhythm, in sound, and in word, poetry calls forth value; its light shines on the few things chosen till they become luminous, radiating a truth long locked within." Old Wounds, New Words shines the light of truth on the people and places of Appalachia. —Judi Jennings Sharyn McCrumb. She Walks These Hills. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. 334 pages. $21.00. Sharyn McCrumb's "ballad" books get better and better. The third in the series, She Walks These Hills, draws on legend, research, and the real and mystical journeys of a book full of colorful characters. A city-bred graduate student, Jeremy Cobb, attempts to complete a scholarly journey, to trace the trail of Katie Wyler, unaware that Katie's spirit is still out there with him, still trying to get home. Hiram Sorley, a sixty-five-year-old escaped convict suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome (which means he's permanently, mentally, stuck in the year 1965) is also trying to come home; his path crisscrosses with those of Jeremy Cobb and Katie Wyler, and in the process "Harm" becomes a folk hero. 62 Sheriff Spencer Arrowood also has to deal with murder, a fotchedon deejay who stirs the stew, a female deputy out to prove her worth by capturing Hiram, and the rest of the tangled web Sharyn McCrumb weaves against an authentic East Tennessee backdrop. Yet, within all the action, McCrumb opens chapter eight with a 2,000 year geology lesson: "Mountains, too, have a lineage. That spine of towering rocks that rises in Georgia and ends with the sea in Nova Scotia, the Appalachian Mountains have long-lost kinfolk on the other side of the Atlantic. The bloodline that marks that kinship is a vein of green mineral called serpentine that snakes an intermittent trail from Georgia to Newfoundland, then appears again in the western extremities of the Caldonides in Ireland . From there the traces stretch through Scotiand, Wales, and England , turning northward through the Shetland Islands, witii a branch touching Greenland, and another line crossing Scandinavia to end in the Arctic Circle. "Perhaps," concludes McCrumb, "when the pioneer descendants of those ancient Celts halted their covered wagons, looked up at the green mountains of Appalachia and felt at home, they were more right than they knew." Even a "ballad" series, in the hands of Sharyn McCrumb, becomes an encyclopedia of Appalachian history, folklore, geology, and mythology , couched under the genre of "mystery." McCrumb is doing for Appalachia what Tony Hillerman does for the Southwest, teaching history and culture to readers who'd never venture near a volume labeled as such. McCrumb dedicates her latest book to Gurney Norman, "the fox on the run," and prefaces the novel with James Still's poem "Heritage...

King coal is dead long live king coall

King coal is dead long live king coall

King Coal, part II

King Coal, part II

移動性水素量による石炭液化および前処理の評価

In order to clarify the effect of pretreatment on liquefaction reactivity of coal, transferable hydrogen (TH) of coal cleaned by gravity separation method was assessed using anthracene as hydrogen acceptor. The amount of TH in River King coal decreased with increasing ash content. The amount of TH was not necessarily correlated with H/C atomic ratio. Organic part of IR spectra of coals was hardly changed by gravity separation. It was recognized that the higher the vitrinite content and the lower the inertinite content, the larger is the amount of TH. Correlations between the amount of TH and the liquefaction yields for the cleaned coal were observed. Except for River King coals, no simple correlation exists between the amount of TH and the total conversion in liquefaction of various coals. On the other hand, good correlation was obtained between the amount of TH and (Asphaltene+Oil) yield. TH is a desirable parameter in evaluating the liquefaction reactivity of coal. The amount of hydrogen requisite to depolymerization of coal was examined on the basis of the model assuming that coal is a simple polymer and was compared with the amount of transferable hydrogen.

Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South (review)

traditional crafts and craftspeople are still with us, and efforts are continually being made to keep them a part of the craft scene, the average craftsperson is now university- or craft-school-trained. He/she knows the market, knows something about exhibiting and selling, and is often a clever business person. Given all this, area craftspeople are becoming more and more "mainstream," their work indistinguishable from that of other areas. Barker draws astute conclusions about the recent history and the future of crafts. Surprisingly, after so many years of working for and with government funding, he concludes that often the subsidies did more harm than good. Knowing nothing about crafts, government agencies have often supported groups with poor standards of work or organization—or none. Or they have instituted training programs on the premise that any craft can be taught to anyone in six easy lessons. The private organizations, the guilds, with or without outside subsidies, have been the ones who have upheld standards and have lasted, while government subsidized ones are gone. Yet even the guilds have become less important to the present knowledgeable craftsperson, who no longer depends upon them for his training and his complete marketing. Craft fairs, once the exclusive property of the guilds, have proliferated into the hundreds, as have craft shops. The days when guild fairs drew astronomical crowds and made ever increasing amounts ofmoney are past. The craft world is changing. But, says Barker, craftspeople still work from love of craft, and crafts will continue to grow in importance in Appalachia. They will grow in sophistication, too, but there will be traditional crafts as long as there is a demand for them. Barker ends his book by hoping there will be much more written on this subject. This writer joins him in that hope. —Bernice A. Stevens John Egerton. Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991. Hardback. $24.95. This book, like the region it describes, is not necessarily what it appears to be. John Egerton has collected thirteen essays, written between 1967 and 1988, that give us at once the darkness and the light of this paradoxical region. But the book is more than just a collection by a distinguished and insightful writer; it gives us a seat on the front porch of the big house from which the reader can survey that place which in Egerton's words, "retains a seemingly infinite capacity to intrigue and fascinate both residents and visitors, to seize their attention and hold it." For Egerton, the South is an enigma defined largely by ironic twists of character. A region abundant with national literary personalities, the South remains one of the least literate areas of the United States. A region known for religious piety and fervor, the South is characterized by violence and mayhem. 67 In a region renowned for courtesy and civility, the specter of racism and inequality remains to be exorcised. Egerton handles these complexities objectively and fairly, acknowledging the realities, both good and bad, in the region and its people. As a region within a region, Appalachia has a significant share in the southern experience. Two essays, "West Virginia's Battle of the Books" and "The King Coal Good Times Blues," are emblematic of tensions within the southern mountains that might appear on the surface to be merely regional peculiarities, only to have Egerton turn them into issues of national importance. In Charleston , West Virginia, the struggle over school textbooks was not a clash of fundamentalists and atheists or hillbillies and city slickers; instead Egerton suggests that this battie of the books was part of "a class war, a cultural war, a religious war," that was "a complex and disturbing reflection of the deep fissures that crisscross American society." In Martin County, Kentucky, site of Lyndon Johnson's 1964 visit to launch the War on Poverty, it turned out that the agent of economic recovery was not the federal government but the coal industry. Martin County became an example not of government-induced prosperity but a demonstration model of Reaganomics and unfettered free enterprise . Unemployment plummeted, annual income rose steadily, and the coal and railroad industries...

Structural Adjustment in Japan: Terminating "Old King Coal"

Research Article| November 01 1991 Structural Adjustment in Japan: Terminating "Old King Coal" S. Hayden Lesbirel S. Hayden Lesbirel Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1991) 31 (11): 1079–1094. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645308 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation S. Hayden Lesbirel; Structural Adjustment in Japan: Terminating "Old King Coal". Asian Survey 1 November 1991; 31 (11): 1079–1094. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2645308 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1991 The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Structural Adjustment in Japan: Terminating "Old King Coal"

Much continues to be written about Japan's economic successes in areas such as electronics and automobiles. Yet, despite the continuation of its large international economic surpluses, more attention needs to be paid to the uncompetitive and inefficient sectors of the Japanese economy. Indeed, the popular view is that many markets in Japan are not functioning properly, e.g., mining, distribution, and construction sectors. For evidence, the literature points to the significantly large price differentials that exist between domestic and world prices for both traded and non-traded goods. Various approaches have been adopted to explain the existence of price differentials and price insensitivity in Japan. Much of the recent theorizing has moved away from cultural analyses, which stress patriotism and deference to authority, to noncultural ones that focus on public policy, institu tions, market ideology toward national security, and corporate organization. Whatever the approach, the conclusion of this literature is that many markets in Japan do not respond to price as they do in other capitalist societies, and there are significant consumer-welfare losses. This article explores the political economy of structural adjustment and policy termination through a case study of the coal industry. In 1968 a decision was made to phase out gradually Japan's inefficient coal industry in response to the increased costs of domestic coal. 1 Yet two decades later,

King Coal's Kingdom

King Coal's Kingdom

New Appalachian Books

New Appalachian Books by George Brosi The Adena People. William S. Webb and Charles E. Snow. Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, first paperback printing (1988) of a 1945 serial publication which became a 1974 hardback book. 369 pages. Trade paperback with photos and index. $14.95. This book is "one of the major publications on eastern United States archaeology in the first half of this century . . . and still remains a standard reference work on this prehistoric Ohio Valley occupation . . . Webb and Snow identified Adena as the first sedentary people in the eastern United States with 'developed agricultural husbandry' . . . pottery makers, smokers, mound builders, constructors of earth- *George Brosi owns and operates the Appalachian Bookstore in Berea and publishes the bimonthly AppalachianMountainBooks. Healso sellsbooks through mailorderstoclientsinallparts ofthecountry. If readers need more information about any ofthe above listings, write him at 123 Walnut Street, Berea, Kentucky 40403. 102 works, builders of wooden houses, and the first architects of ceremonial structures." -James B. Griffin in the Foreword. The Adena People were the dominant culture in northern Kentucky and West Virginia from about 2500 B.C. until about 700 A.D. Cochran, Weimer. Nantahala People and Events. Berea, Kentucky: Berea College Appalachian Center, 1987. 35 pages. Staple-bound trade paperback. $3.00. Weimer Cochran (1892-1978) was a lifelong resident of Macon County, North Carolina. A farmer and timber cutter, he only had a grade-school education, but he became a fine amateur historian and storyteller. In this pamphlet Loyal Jones edits together both written and spoken material he collected from Cochran, adding a short write-up by John Parris, in The Asheville Citizen. Cohen, Stan. King Coal: A Pictorial Heritage of West Virginia Coal Mining. Charleston, West Virginia: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, fifth printing, 1988, of a 1984 release. 146 pages. Trade paperback $9.95. The great union drives, the terrible mine disasters, the coal barons' mansions and the miners' hovels all come to life in this attractive coffee-table book of many pictures, and short, informative text. Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy. Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1987. 192 pages. Hardback in dust jacket with photos, index, and bibliography. $19.95. While this impressive book centers on the mine explosion in 1911 that killed 128 convict miners, it also illuminates many other important issues as well. The Banner mine was located in Jefferson County, Alabama, and much industrial and Alabama hill-country history is included in this book. Since so many convict miners were black, the book illuminates black history as well as criminology and the convict lease system. Deitz, J. Dennis. The Flood and the Blood. South Charleston, West Virginia: Mountain Memory Books, 1988. 245 pages. Hardback in dust jacket with index and photographs on practically every page. $20.00. This coffee-table book contains a wealth of compelling stories from local people in the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek area south of Charleston, West Virginia. Most of the material deals with the 1932 flood on Paint Creek, but also included are accounts of other floods, the mine wars, and mine disasters. The old pictures and some new ones bring the text to life while the drawings by Lawrence Harper and the maps by Roy Harper clarify the commentary considerably. This book is a great combination of social history and good old-fashioned storytelling. Donald, David Herbert. Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988, paperback edition of a 1987 release. 577 pages. A trade paperback with photos, notes, sources and index. $12.95. "Easily the best biography of an American novelist." -Gore Vidal. "An eloquently told story and an extraordinary achievement." -The Boston Globe. "Supercedes all Erevious Wolfe biographies in illuminating detail, in empathy for its complex unappy subject, in sympathy for what he wanted to do, and what he did, as a writer, 103 and in its own literary distinction . . ." -Washington Post Book World. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) grew up in Asheville, North Carolina. The book remains in print as a hardback. $24.95. Dorgan, Howard. Giving Glory to God in Appalachia: Worship Practices of Six Baptist Subdenominations. Knoxville, Tennessee: The University...

Book Review: Labor Organizations: The Coal War: A Sequel to “King Coal.”

Book Review: Labor Organizations: The Coal War: A Sequel to “King Coal.”

The Coal War: A Sequel to "King Coal."

The Coal War: A Sequel to "King Coal."

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article: Good According to Whom?Morris Milgram, Good Neighborhood: RerunsRobert Halvorsen, Econometric Models of U.S. Energy Demand. Lexington, Mass.: Soft Technologies, Hard SellAmory B. Lovins, Soft Energy Paths: Quantification GameR. K. Jain, L. V. Urban, and G. S. Stacey, Environmental Impact Analysis: Laborious CalculationsO d e John McDiarmid, Unskilled Labor for Development: Intraurban RelationshipsKeith S. O. Beavon, Central Place Theory: Everything You'd Want to KnowLillian Deitch, David Weinstein, et al., Prepaid Legal Services: Useful ExperiencesA. J. Brown and E. M. Burrows, Regional Economic Problems: Government Policy and the MarketA. J. Harrison, Economics and Land Use Planning. New York: Playing for KeepsJames F. Murphy and Dennis R. Howard, Delivery of Community Leisure Services: Innovation DiffusionRobert K. Yin, Karen A. Heald, and Mary E. Vogel, Tinkering with the System: Briefer Mention Cautious Optimism Eric Ashby, Reconciling Man with the Environment. King Coal Curtis E. Harvey, The Economics of Kentucky Coal.

The Coal War: A Sequel to "King Coal"

The Coal War: A Sequel to "King Coal"

Upton Sinclair and H. L. Mencken in Correspondence: "An Illustration of How Not To Agree"

Research Article| December 01 1974 Upton Sinclair and H. L. Mencken in Correspondence: "An Illustration of How Not To Agree" DAVID A. REMLEY DAVID A. REMLEY Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (1974) 56 (4): 337–358. https://doi.org/10.2307/41171418 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation DAVID A. REMLEY; Upton Sinclair and H. L. Mencken in Correspondence: "An Illustration of How Not To Agree". Southern California Quarterly 1 December 1974; 56 (4): 337–358. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41171418 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentSouthern California Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. © Copyright 1974 The Historical Society of Southern California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

New King Coal

New King Coal

New King Coal

Derek Ezra, Lord Robens' NCB successor does his work in two parts, from Monday to Friday and at weekends. Such job dedication leaves little time for his outside interest—history. But, as he tells Preston Witts' he still has a task to complete with a certain Samuel Rogers.

Old King Coal in New Chemical Domain

Old King Coal in New Chemical Domain

King coal's new kingdom

King coal's new kingdom

Anti-Trust Laws and Conservation of Minerals

Be it noted that the population of the United States has more than doubled since the passage of the Sherman Act, and, with the present rate of increase, we may expect a population of two hundred million by 1975, or a population of four hundred million a hundred years hence. Concomitant with this increase in population has come a disproportionate increase in the extraction of our mineral resources. Instead of doubling, as has the population, the value of mineral products has risen from six hundred and fifty million dollars in 1890 to approximately five and a half billion in 1928. The output of the four leading mineral industriesiron, bituminous coal, copper and petroleum-has increased ten-fold in value and six-fold in quantity since 1890. For example, in 1927, our exports of petroleum and its products alone exceeded that of 1926 by seven million barrels. The story of the petroleum industry is familiar to all. Mr. Steele has ably surveyed the situation in this volume. The international problem was discussed by Mr. Marcosson, in The Saturday Evening Post for the week of October 26, 1929. However, the story of King Coal, Iron, Copper, Lead and Zinc is less well known. The following table, presented by Mr. Cornelius F. Kelley, President of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, to the American Bar Association, at its meeting in 1928, shows the reader in concise form the production and per capita consumption of these basic minerals in 1927 as against 1890.