Van Lear
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1.) (1988-1989) Coal Operators Oral History Project. 46 interviews. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY: http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org/series/18738/coal-operators-oral-hist...
2.) (1988-1992) Family and Gender in the Coal Community. 64 interviews. Louie B, Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY: http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org/series/18740/family-and-gender-coal-c...
1.) Blevins, Danny K. (2008) Images of America: Van Lear. Arcadia Publishing, Charlestown, SC.
2.) Graves, Glenna Horne (1993) In the Morning We Had Bulldog Gravy: Women in the Coal Camps of the Appalachian South, 1900-1940. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
3.) Vaughn, James E. (2010) Bankmules: The Story of Van Lear, a Kentucky Coal Town. Jesse Stuart Foundation.
4.) Torok, George D. (2004) A Guide to Historic Coal Towns of the Big Sandy River Valley. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
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