"In the Same Predicament as Heretofore": Proremoval Arguments in Seneca Letters from the Buffalo Creek Reservation in the 1830s and 1840s

Ethnohistory ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. Haake
Keyword(s):  
Buffalo Creek

Disaster at Buffalo Creek

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Erikson
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mine Waste ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
Mining Company ◽  
Middle Fork ◽  
Buffalo Creek ◽  
The Individual

This chapter focuses on the Buffalo Creek flood in West Virginia that occurred on February 26, 1972. Almost everyone along Buffalo Creek depended on coal mining for a living. The creek is formed by three narrow forks meeting at the top of the hollow. The middle of these forks, known as Middle Fork, had been for many years the site of an enormous bank of mine waste. The waste was there because it solved two important disposal problems for the Buffalo Mining Company. This chapter describes the events that led to the Buffalo Creek disaster and its aftermath. It also considers the individual and collective trauma caused by the flood. Finally, it presents the story of a survivor named “Wilbur.”

The Buffalo Creek Litigants

1981 ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
GOLDINE C. GLESER ◽  
BONNIE L. GREEN ◽  
CAROLYN WINGET
Keyword(s):  
Buffalo Creek
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