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The library at Wayne State University has a copy of one manuscript, Tom Myerscough's Bloody Hell in Kentucky, see here https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/LP000622.pdf
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions, A&M 2628, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Gift of Nyden, Paul, 1979/03/21.
Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
(1) Tom Myerscough, Bloody Hell in Kentucky , circa 1932, a fictionalized account of the National Miners Union strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931. Myerscough
became an organizer and then president of the National Miners Union.
(2) Adam Getto, Autobiography , 1975, an autobiography of his experiences as a union section leader at Bethlehem Steel's Ellsworth Mine in Bentleyville,
Pennsylvania.
(3) Miriam Schultz, Bread Upon the Waters , circa 1970, a novel about coal miners in western Pennsylvania.
(4) Miriam Schultz, "Larry Corcoran," circa 1970, a short story about a coal miner in western Pennsylvania.
(5) Tony Sabo, Stripped Naked in Public , circa 1971, an autobiographical account about his life in coal towns in northern West Virginia and his work in the Welfare
Rights Organization.
Microfilm contains copies of Autobiography , Stripped Naked in Public , and "Larry Corcoran."