Volume 47, Number2

On the cover: Weapons confiscated from miners during the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike are displayed on the state capitol grounds, 1912-13. Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Daniel E. Hall Collection.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Jim Justice, Governor

Randall Reid-Smith, Curator
Department of Arts, Culture and History

Stan Bumgardner, Editor

Joseph Aluise, Assistant Editor

Jacob Hall Design
Publication Design

Summer 2021

2 From the Editor

5 Ode to the Union: Former UFCW Local 347

President Sterling Ball
By Emily Hilliard

8 The West Virginia Mine Wars: A Brief History

By Stan Bumgardner

22 From Organizer to Outcast:

The Rise and Fall of Frank Keeney
By Aaron Parsons

30 C. E. Lively: The Man Who Started a War

By R. G. Yoho

34 A Relentless Dissident: A. D. Lavinder

By Ginny Savage Ayers

38 Fallen Angel: Mother Jones

and the Harding Telegram
By Gordon Simmons

44 “State Police Hold the Logan County Line”

By Merle T. Cole

49 I Shot the Sheriff: Bill Petry and Don Chafin

By Wes Holden

54 Huey Hager: Capturing Don Chafin’s Brother

By Julian Martin

56 Proud to Be a Redneck

By Kenzie New Walker

58 What Happened to the Mine Wars?

Erasing West Virginia History
By Sam Heywood

66 West Virginia Mine Wars in Historical Fiction:

Writers Jean Battlo and Denise Giardina
By Eric Douglas

72 Songs of Labor

By Paul Gartner

77 Blair Mountain:

West Virginia’s Sacred Landscape
By Charles B. Keeney III

83 The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum

By Stan Bumgardner

87 Blair Mountain Centennial Events

88 The Legacy of the Mine Wars

By Stan Bumgardner

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