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Also by Jeff Biggers:

Reckoning At Eagle Creek, February 2010
Hardcover
The United States of Appalachia, January 2006
Hardcover

RECKONING AT EAGLE CREEK
By: Jeff Biggers

Nation Books
February 2010
On Sale: January 26, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 1568584210
EAN: 9781568584218
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family’s nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so, he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods heritage, but also chronicles a dark and missing chapter in the American experience: the historical nightmare of coal outside of Appalachia, serving as an exposé of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.

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