Hellraisers Journal: Fight Resumes on the Tug; Regulars Push Up to Scene of Battle on Spruce Fork Ridge at Blair Mountain

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Quote Fred Mooney, Mingo Co Gunthugs, UMWJ p15, Dec 1, 1920—————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday September 4, 1921
West Virginia – Regulars Pushing Up to Scene of Battle at Blair Mountain

From The West Virginian of September 3, 1921:

Battle of Blair Mountain, HdLn Fight on Tug, Spruce Fork Ridge Quiet, WVgn p1, Sept 3, 1921

Battle of Blair Mountain, Regulars on Way to Scene, WVgn p1, Sept 3, 1921

Battle of Blair Mountain, Fight on Tug KY Border, WVgn p1, Sept 3, 1921

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Fred Mooney, Mingo Co Gunthugs, UMWJ p15, Dec 1, 1920
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2hg5AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA23-PA14

The West Virginian
(Fairmont, West Virginia)
-Sept 3, 1921
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86072054/1921-09-03/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86072054/1921-09-03/ed-1/seq-4/

See also:

The Battle of Blair Mountain
The Story Of America’s Largest Labor Uprising
-by Robert Shogan
Basic Books, Jul 26, 2006
(search: “spruce fork ridge”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=IVmypbQvHwAC

“Mountaintop Rescue” by Samir S. Patel
From Archaeology of January/February 2012
https://archive.archaeology.org/1201/features/blair_mountain_coal_activism_west_virginia.html

United Mine Workers Journal of Sept 15, 1921
-re reporters Mildred Morris and Boyden Sparkes
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=oHItAQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.RA17-PA4

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Battle of Blair Mountain – Louise Mosrie