Battle of Blair Mountain #1 - Extra History
Added 2022-09-16 17:30:01 +0000 UTCMatewan, West Virginia. May 19, 1920. Police Chief Sid Hatfield sits in the town square. He's declined bribes and payoffs to help protect the coal miners of Matewan but the Baldwin Felts detective agency has its own plans. Backed by the coal industry and commercial railroad they've fabricated a deadly standoff, in the largest American uprising since the civil war.
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No, I imagine not.
Martin Verran
2022-09-18 16:10:25 +0000 UTCThe sad reality is that the Corporations won the war, so to speak, and it appears that Martin is the sort of person who the corporations indoctrinated.
Aaron Neumann
2022-09-17 23:16:06 +0000 UTCThe genuine sheep joke leads me to believe he is.
The Deaf Mans Lands
2022-09-17 20:57:35 +0000 UTCTechnically not about this event, but about a similar event by the same Union in Kentuky, specifically Harlan county. That said, this song and so much other union songs are great. anyways: YOU WILL EITHER BE A UNION MAN, OR A THUG FOR J.H BLAIR.
Herkles
2022-09-17 17:19:50 +0000 UTCGoodness gracious, I've been waiting for this series for years since I started supporting EH! Thank you guys so much for finally talking about it!
The Deaf Mans Lands
2022-09-17 09:03:34 +0000 UTCI am unclear here, are you anti-union?
Veteran of the Mushroom Wars
2022-09-17 02:50:29 +0000 UTCAs pointed out obliquely in the video... did anyone think picking a fight with a Hatfield would go well?
Ramien
2022-09-17 02:44:58 +0000 UTCWHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON, BOYS? WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
Aaron Neumann
2022-09-16 23:32:02 +0000 UTCYou can bet this won't be taught in most schools.
Jason Youngberg
2022-09-16 18:03:02 +0000 UTCBAAA ~ lair Mountain: what happens when working ~ class sheep take up the ideologies of Karl Marx.
Martin Verran
2022-09-16 17:40:42 +0000 UTC
