#22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction

The Martyr Made Podcast

Darryl Cooper

History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 335 minutes

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Summary

In August 1921, 10,000-20,000 armed coal miners marched on Mingo County, West Virginia to lift the martial law imposed there, free their jailed brethren, and avenge the assassination of one of their local heroes. At least 20,000 more wives, young boys and other civilians followed the army providing medical, logistical and other services. Before it was over, they would storm a mountainside under fire from entrenched machine guns, and while being bombed from the air. It was the largest and most serious armed insurrection in US history since the Civil War. This episode is going to discuss the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, and The Battle of Blair Mountain.These episodes are out a week or two early on the Substack feed (https://martyrmade.substack.com/). If you enjoy this content or want more essays and podcasts not available here, please consider becoming a subscriber over at Substack, it’s how I manage to be able to do this at all.Here’s the link to Jocko’s company, Origin (https://originmaine.com/), that I mention in the intro. Go there and check out the high-end clothing, boots, jiu jitsu gis, hunting gear and more, all hand-made in the United States.Here’s the link to Daniele Bolelli’s History on Fire podcast (http://historyonfirepodcast.com/) (also available wherever you get your podcasts).

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0:00.0	What is up everybody?
0:04.0	This is Darrell Cooper.
0:07.0	This is the Martyr Made podcast and you are about to listen to Who's America?
0:14.0	Episode 1.
0:16.0	This one is called Rough Extraction.
0:20.0	It's about the West Virginia coal mine wars. This one is called Rough Extraction.
0:23.9	It's about the West Virginia coal mine wars.
0:33.4	It happens to be the largest and most serious uprising in the history of the United States since the Civil War.
0:38.1	You would have had this episode a few days sooner.
0:40.1	I really wanted to get it out on Labor Day.
0:44.8	But, you know, this story, I love this story.
0:47.1	As an American, I love this story.
0:50.5	And it's really important to me to get it right.
0:53.0	I'm still not 100% sure that I got it right,
0:56.3	but I put the work in if nothing else.
1:03.2	I've literally reworked this thing from scratch four times. I've tried recording it a couple times. You know, I was trying to fit in all of the context and all of the great stories that I think
1:07.7	are necessary to really get underneath the skin of this story.
1:12.5	And to give it the dramatic oomph I wanted to give it, because I want everybody to love this
1:17.9	story as much as I do. But every time I tried, you know, I'd get two hours, two and a half
1:24.7	hours into the thing and realize that I haven't even mentioned coal mining
1:28.6	yet. I know surprise, surprise, martyr made podcast takes a long time to get to the point. But it, you know,
1:35.4	it was just going on too long. And so I would try again. I would try again because I didn't want to
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