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A fictionalized account of the worst industrial incident in American history. Stifled by Union Carbide on its publication by Doubleday, the 1941 novel tells the stories of several workers involved in drilling a tunnel through Gauley Mountain in West Virginia. Almost a thousand died from lung silicosis.

Produktbeschreibung
A fictionalized account of the worst industrial incident in American history. Stifled by Union Carbide on its publication by Doubleday, the 1941 novel tells the stories of several workers involved in drilling a tunnel through Gauley Mountain in West Virginia. Almost a thousand died from lung silicosis.
Autorenporträt
Hubert Skidmore (1909-1946) was born in Webster Springs, WV, twin brother to novelist Hobert Skidmore. He was the author of five other novels: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (1936), Heaven Came So Near (1938), River Rising (1939), Hill Doctor (1950), and Hill Lawyer (1942). Married to novelist Maritta Wolff, he died in a house fire in Dauberville, PA, at the age of thirty-seven.