By Firestorm Coop September 12th, 2022 Join author Mitch Troutman in conversation with creative activist Eleanor Goldfield in this virtual…
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DIY Coal Dredgers & the Hard Coal Navy
By Mitch Troutman The bootleggers weren’t the only ones reclaiming company coal for their own. For a century or better,…
How to Learn if Your Family Bootlegged Coal
By Mitch Troutman Bootleg Coal I want to share a short except from the book of one of the most…
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…