By Mitch Troutman Bootleg Coal I want to share a short except from the book of one of the most…
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Mitch Troutman and Bootleg Coal on WKOK
Mitch Troutman, on the upcoming book signings and appearances for his book: The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who…
The Past and Present of Mining—Featuring Mitch Troutman and Jamie Kneen on Project Censored
Project Censored September 20, 2022 Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on September 20, 2022 This week,…
Inside a Rural Book Tour
Welp, my book is finally out, in print, in people’s hands. I’ve had a whole strategy about its release that…
Preserving the radical history of Pennsylvania’s bootleg coal miners
By Jordana Rosenfeld PGHpaper September 7th, 2022 The Prohibition-era bootleggers who illegally manufactured and sold alcohol from 1920-1933 are favorite…
Author explores history of bootlegged coal in new book
By Cindy O. Herman The Daily Item August 15th, 2022 If you were a coal miner in the early 1930s,…
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry
Jun 24, 2022 THE BATTLE OF HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION presented a book discussion of “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners…
Book Review: The Bootleg Coal Rebellion The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry- Mitch Troutman.
By Mitchell K. Jones Midwestern Marx Modern “Coal Bootleggers” in Schuylkill County”. Postcard circa 1945. A bootleg mine shaft near…
Munitions in Industrial Warfare
By Mitch Troutman (Photo from the 1934 Minneapolis Truckers’ Strike) Writing the Bootleg Coal Rebellion involved reading roughly 5,000 unique…
Everything is Green Now
By Mitch Trouthman It’s happening again. A few months ago, Talon Energy announced it is building a bitcoin mining facility…