* Denotes item quoted in
report
Books
* Bennett, Lola (1990) The Company
Towns of the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company: Robertsdale
and Woodvale, Pennsylvania. Washington D.C.:
HABS/HAER, National Park Service.
Deals with Anthricite Mining
and their company towns near the East Broad Top part
of Pennsylvania.
* Brestensky, Dennis F. Ed. (1991)
The Early Coal Miner; Conference Proceedings April
13-14, 1989 PennState Fayette Campus Uniontown,
Pennsylvania. Connellsville, Pa: Connellsville
Printing Company.
Excellent source for
bituminous information. This information that I used
was on the celebrations that miners and patch people
used.
* Brestensky, Dennis F. et. al. (1977)
Patch/Work Voices; The culture and lore of a mining
people. State College, Pa: Pennsylvania State
University.
Again another excellent
source. This one delt with some of the beliefs and was
the basis for much of the survey I created.
Coode, Thomas. (1986) Bugdust and
Blackdamp: Life and Work in the Old Coal Patch.
Uniontown, PA: Comart Press.
A good book that cronicles
some of the people in the patches. It is a good read
and provides some interesting insights.
Mulrooney, Margaret. (1989)
A Legacy of Coal: The Coal Company Towns of
Southwestern Pennsylvania. Washington D.C.:
HABS/HAER, National Park Service.
Paul, Wolfgang. (1970) Mining
Lore. Portland, Oregon: Morris Printing
Company.
* Salitrick, Bobby G. & Patch/Work
Voices Coal and Coke Project. (1994) Coal Mines, Coke
Yards, Families of the Patch. Dunbar, Pa: Stefano's
Printing.
This book is a childern's
book designed to show them some of the folklore
involved in coal mining. It is partially a coloring
book and partially text about some of the folk lore. I
used the section on animals in this paper.
Sheppard, Muriel. (1947) Cloud by
Day: The Story of Coal and Coke and People. Chapel
Hill: Univeristy of North Carolina Press.
This book was part of Richard
Marcavitch's collection and may not be in print. It is
a good discription, not unlike the Coode book, of the
patch life. But it does also go into the mining
aspects of the job.
Journals
* Eiman, Pan. (1985) Legendary Saint
Barbara still honored as the patron saint of mining.
Mining Engineering, November 1985.
This article was a good one
on Saint Barbera. It did not elaborate fully on why
she was the patron saint of mining, but it did give a
solid background on her life.
* Weston, Bruce Ed. (1981)
Southwestern Pennsylvania: Daisytown. Number 1 (of
6)
This magazine styled booklet
is filled with items related to Daisytown and its
people. There are several discussions with towns
people and also several articles on mining and life in
general. It is also a fantastic item for
photographs.
Newspapers
* The Brownsville Telegraph,
Brownsville, Pa., March 31, 1986: Special Edition
COAL. 96 pp.
Good item to find if
possible. This was part of Richard Marcavitch's
collection and was difficult to find. It is filled
with articles on coal mining, its history, women,
beliefs and most of the other information I covered in
this report. A fantastic item that was designed to
celebrate Mitchell Day.
Websites
* Burt, Roger. "Home page." Mining
History Network. (July 9, 1997) http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RBurt/MinHistNet/
(December 5, 1998)
This is the site to head to
for the mining history listserv. It has some great
resources such as a good bibliography. It is focused
on international mining, but American mining material
can be found under the section "North America."
* Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and
Progressive Era. (1997) http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/Lessons_US/Gilded_Age/Coal_Mining/
(December 5, 1998)
This site was home to some of
the pictures I used and was also the location of a bit
of the information. Though there is not much folklore
it does have some excellent mining history.
* "Coal Education." The Kentucky Coal
Council. (November 23, 1998 ) http://www.coaldeducation.org
(December 5, 1998)
A good resource on the
history of mining, although most of it is Kentucky
oriented. It has a fantastic glossary, from which many
of the terms in this glossary were taken.
* United Mine Workers. "History."
United Mine Workers. (1997) http://www.access.digex.net/~miner/index.html
(December 5, 1998)
This site has good info on
the history of the United Mine workers. It is also a
good location for photographs. I used the two drawings
and the two pictures at the end of the text from the
site.
