During the nineteenth century the American economy was able to expand rapidly due to the availability of cheap and plentiful supplies of coal. This primary resource collection covers all aspects of this important energy source through a selection of letters, pamphlets, industry reports and newspaper articles. The third volume in this set traces the

Volume 3 King Coal's Uneasy Throne in America, 1870-1902 Introduction Charles Reemelin, Benjamin M. Skinner and Andrew Roy, Report of the Mining Commission Appointed under Joint Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, Passed May 2d, 1871, to his Excellency the Governor Rutherford B. Hayes. November 14th, 1871 (1872), extract Israel W. Morris, The Duty on Coal, Being a Few Facts Connected with the Coal Question, Which Will Furnish Matter for T ought to the Friends of American Industry (1872) Philadelphia Coal Exchange, The Coal Monopoly. The Coal Trade of Philad'a in Reply to the President of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company. With the Charter of the Laurel Run Improvement Company, Now the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (1873) James McKillop, 'A Visit to the Coal Mines of America', in Coal and American Coal Mining (1876), extract F. A. Herwig, The Present Management of the Reading Railroad, as It Affects the Coal Regions, the Coal Miners and Consumers (1879) The Coal Dealer Conspiracy: Selected Articles from the Chicago Tribune, 1880-6 Anon., 'A Serious Question', Chicago Tribune, 25 November 1880 Anon., ['The Coal Dealers'], Chicago Tribune, 10 May 1881 'M. C.', 'The Coal Dealers' Conspiracy', Chicago Tribune, 15 December 1881 Anon., 'The West and the Coal Combination', Chicago Tribune, 28 July 1883 Anon., 'The Coal Question. A Retail Dealer's Views on the Question', Chicago Tribune, 17 May 1885 1Anon., 'The Coal Combination', Chicago Tribune, 5 October 1886 1John McBride, 'Coal Miners', in George E. McNeill (ed.), The Labor Movement: The Problem of To-day (1887) Charles Miesse, Points on Coal and the Coal Business ... History of the Anthracite Coal Field and its Surroundings (1887), extract Chris Evans, History of the United Mine Workers of America, Volume II: From the Year 1890 to 1900 (1918), extract Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May-October, 1902 (1903), extrac