Print version: Day, James Sanders. Diamonds in the rough : a history of Alabama’s Cahaba coal field. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2013] xiii, 209 pages ISBN 9780817317942
Includes bibliographical references and index
Discovering and Marketing Coal : 1815-1859 -- Mining and Mapping Coal : 1859-1883 -- Surveying and Developing the Field : 1883-1910 -- Coal Towns : 1881-1919 -- Convict Leasing : 1872-1927 -- Welfare Capitalism : 1915-1933 -- Unionism : 1878-1935 -- Decline and Demise : 1929-1976.