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13 On the fascinating history of Middlesboro, see Harry M. Caudill, Theirs Be the Power: The Moguls of Eastern Kentucky (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983), 16–35; John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980); Kenneth W. Kuehn et al., eds. Geologic Impacts on the History and Development of Middlesboro, Kentucky (Lexington: Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists, 2003); Ann Dudley Matheny, The Magic City: Footnotes to the History of Middlesborough, Kentucky, and the Yellow Creek Valley (Middlesboro, KY: Bell County Historical Society, 2003).
14 Quoted in Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness, 47. See ibid., 47–83. On British investment in the United States, see Eric Rauchway, Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006), 42–52, esp. 48.
15 Katie Algeo, “Historical Overview: Settlement History of the Cumberland Gap Region,” in Kuehn et al., eds., Geologic Impacts, 3–8.
16 55th U.S. Congress, 2d Session, H.R. Doc. 10, Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency (Washington, 1897), vol. I: 496–97. “Encouraging. Middlesborough Town and Lands Company Has a Meeting in London,” MWH, Dec. 3, 1897, 4. See Algeo, “Historical Overview,” 7–8; Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness, 76–78; Matheny, Magic City, xxii–xxiv, 102–21.
17 “Mingo,” MWH, Nov. 26, 1897, 1. “Furnaces,” ibid., 4. Untitled editorial, MWR, Feb. 24, 1898, 4. See also “Encouraging,” MWH, Dec. 3, 1897, 4. On school enrollments, see “Report of Public School for November,” ibid., Dec. 3, 1897, 1. USCB 1900, Vol. I—Population, Part I (Washington, 1901), 618. U.S. Census Bureau, Twelfth Census of the United States (1900): Schedule No. 1—Population: Bell County, Kentucky, Middlesboro, Enumeration Districts 18 and 19. For a warmer portrait of race relations in Middlesboro, see Matheny, Magic City, 127–32.
18 U.S. Census Bureau, Negroes in the United States (Washington, 1904), 11, 13, 60. Herbert R. Northrup, “The Coal Mines,” in Blacks in Appalachia, ed. William H. Turner and Edward J. Cabbell (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985), 159–71. On rural industry in the South, see Jacqueline Jones, The Dispossessed: America’s Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 127–66. On post–Civil War railroad development in Appalachia, see Robert L. Frey, “Railroads,” in Encyclopedia of Appalachia, ed. Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006), 715–17.
19 G. M. Magruder, “Work of the Service in Suppressing Smallpox in Alabama,” PHR, 13 (Mar. 18, 1898), 246. “A Big Scare,” MWR, Nov. 18, 1897, 1. “Unwarranted,” MWH, Nov. 19, 1897, 4.
20 “A Big Scare,” MWR, Nov. 18, 1897, 1.
21 L. L. Robertson, “Bell County Board of Health,” in KBOH 1900–01, 24–25. “Laws, Rules and Regulations,” in KBOH 1898–99, 177–78. “A Big Scare,” MWR, Nov. 18, 1897, 1. “Unwarranted,” MWH, Nov. 19, 1897, 4.
22 “Laws, Rules and Regulations,” in KBOH 1898–99, 173–80, 186. Nelson County Court v. Town of Bardstown, Superior Court of Kentucky (1885) in ibid., 173–76, esp. 176.
23 On the state board’s vaccination estimates, see “The State Board of Health Urges All Kentucky Cities and Towns to Take Prompt Action,” LMH, Feb. 8, 1899, 4. For the Middlesboro estimate, see Matheny, Magic City, 226.
24 “Unwarranted,” MWH, Nov. 19, 1897, 4. Untitled editorial, MWR, Nov. 18, 1897, 4. See also “Smallpox,” LMH, Nov. 17, 1897, 1.
25 “Quarantine Raised,” MWH, Dec. 10, 1897, 4.
26 See “Quarantine Jottings,” MWR, Feb. 17, 1898, 2.
27 “Aunt Mariah ______,” MWR, Feb. 24, 1898, 2. Due to the poor quality of the microfilm, the last part of the headline is illegible.
28 “Chicken-Pox,” MWR, Nov. 26, 1897, 5. “Quarantine Raised,” ibid., Dec. 10, 1897, 4. “Smallpox,” ibid., Feb. 3, 1898, 3. KBOH 1898–99, 21.
29 Tazewell Progress quoted in untitled editorial, MWR, Feb. 10, 1898, 4. “Smallpox,” ibid., Feb. 3, 1898, 3. See Matheny, Magic City, 228.
30 See “Laws, Rules and Regulations,