K Bruce Florence: 2 books

The story is of Dorcas and Orville and their life in a coal camp in the late 1940s. Orville is killed in a roof fall, and Dorcas is left to struggle with rearing her two tiny children in a hostile environment. There are threats on all sides that she must face and conquer if she is to survive.

Fleeties Crossing will reveal events and upheavals in the lives of two families who stumbled upon the heartbreak of the beginning of the out-migration in the Appalachians. The devastating results of this period in history, beginning in the late forties, continue to some degree still today. This author...