At times his writing rises to the level of beautiful, especially in his depictions of the rugged coal-mining country and culture of far western Virginia, where the crime occurred.

To a certain extent, Russia's miners are facing a quicker version of what happened to their counterparts in the United States, Britain and most other big coal-mining countries over the last several decades.

In the coal-mining country of Western Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh, Coal Run is a town ravaged and haunted by a mine explosion that took the lives of 96 men.

In the coal-mining country of Western Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh, the fictional locale of Jolly Mount is home to Shae-Lynn Penrose.

The coal-mining country in West Virginia.

Gibbsville was in coal-mining country and though the industry was "just about licked" in 1930, the local mobsters did well, what with Prohibition and prostitution.

This is also coal-mining country.

August Horstmann was quietly buried in a small cemetery serving a largely Catholic village in the coal-mining country of Pennsylvania, near a retirement home for elderly and penniless priests.

Several generations back, some of her relatives came from the hard-working, coal-mining country around Huntington and Bartram, West Virginia.

A Jewish boy and a Christian girl in Welsh coal-mining country in 1911.