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In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, resulting in a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis’s book uses this in large part forgotten episode as a window into contests over political, environmental, and legal change in turn-of-the-century Appalachia.
The Eastham-Thompson feud pitted a former Confederate against a member of the brand new business elite who was once, as a northern Republican, his cultural and political opposite. For Lewis, their clash was once one flashpoint in a larger phenomenon central to US history in the second one half of the nineteenth century: the ceaselessly violent imposition of new commercial and legal regimes over holdout areas stretching from Appalachia to the trans-Missouri West. Taking a ground-level view of these so-known as “wars of incorporation,” Lewis’s powerful microhistory shows just how strongly local communities guarded traditional relationships to natural resources. Modernizers sought to convict Eastham of murder, but juries drawn from the traditionalist population refused to comply. Even if the resisters won the courtroom battle, the modernizers ultimately won the war for keep an eye on of the state’s timber frontier.
The Eastham-Thompson feud pitted a former Confederate against a member of the brand new business elite who was once, as a northern Republican, his cultural and political opposite. For Lewis, their clash was once one flashpoint in a larger phenomenon central to US history in the second one half of the nineteenth century: the ceaselessly violent imposition of new commercial and legal regimes over holdout areas stretching from Appalachia to the trans-Missouri West. Taking a ground-level view of these so-known as “wars of incorporation,” Lewis’s powerful microhistory shows just how strongly local communities guarded traditional relationships to natural resources. Modernizers sought to convict Eastham of murder, but juries drawn from the traditionalist population refused to comply. Even if the resisters won the courtroom battle, the modernizers ultimately won the war for keep an eye on of the state’s timber frontier.
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