105. Further Right Than West Virginia

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 48 min

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Episode description

This week, David and Madeline talk about the West Virginia coal mining wars, deputizing orthodontists to shoot the poors, and maybe the only okay cop to ever exist -- maybe!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

BOOK:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/

SOURCES:

Savage, Lon: Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Coal Mine War 1920-1921

Shogon, Robert: The Battle of Blair Mountain

Hubert, Patrick: Rednecks and Red Bandanas

Wheeler, Hoyt: What Did the Coal Miner See

Amsden, Jon and Brier, Stephen: Coal Miners on Strike

Gadsby, Margaret: The Coal Strikes

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