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The regions of eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia—sometimes called feud country—changed rapidly with the advent of the coal industry and the big business takeover of formerly localized timber businesses. The industries especially accelerated once railroad transportation came into the most rural areas of Appalachia. Early coal miners are depicted in this submitted image, which is reported to have been taken at the entrance to a mine site in the Williams River region of West Virginia in t