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SCRIP: How the Coal Companies Impoverished Harlan County

By Charles Edward Thomas
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By Charles Edward Thomas
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In 1910, the L&N pushed its railroad into remote Harlan County, Kentucky, opening access to billions of tons of coal, the fuel that ran everything during the Industrial Revolution. Coal did it all. Streetlights from coal gas, coke for the steel mills, power for the new national electrical grid.

The country's richest men and largest corporation rushed in—Ford Motor Company, US Steel, Chicago Edison, International Harvester, Peabody Energy, the Mellons, the Carnegies, bringing with them a sys...

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