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The peak year for 20th century coal production in West Virginia occurred during which decade?
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What early industry gave rise in the Kanawha Valley to the coal industry?
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How many miners died in the 2010 Upper Big Branch Disaster in Raleigh County?
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What international financier forced the N&W Railway to give him 50,000 acres of prime coal land in McDowell County?
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Most West Virginia coal is of what type?
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Which one of these counties did NOT originally produce among the five highest amounts of coal?
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By the early 1930s, about how much of southern West Virginia's coal was being mined by African Americans?
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Who did Pittston Coal blame for the Buffalo Creek Flood?
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Who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 until his retirement in 1960?
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In 1931, which former Mine Wars leader founded a rival union to the United Mine Workers of America?
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