Area, 25 Aug 1921, NARA; Lee, Bloodletting in Appalachia, 98-99; David Corbin, Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coalfields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1920 (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1981), 195, 218-19; Rich, President and Civil Disorder, 162; Savage, Thunder in the Mountains, 64-65. Legislation recreating the West Virginia National Guard took effect on 27 July 1921, and the first National Guard unit, Company I, 150th Infantry, was activated on 21 August. By late October, eleven state militia companies would be in existence. John H. Carnock was named adjutant; see Cole, "Martial Law," 139-40.

27. Senate, West Virginia Coalfields, 1032; Rich, President and Civil Disorder, 162; Mauer Mauer and Calvin F. Senning, "Billy Mitchell, the Air Service, and the Mingo War," West Virginia History 30(October 1968): 342.

28. Lunt,and destroyed Cyme that she had worked with.

This Cyme had been strong, independent, and full of pride. It was this stubborn pride that had cost in the end. Frank offered her adventure that she could have only dreamed of before and wealth that would be outside a king’s reach. War was her people’s world, and that path lead to only one end.

The world that Tila now found herself in was one of metal and glass. Great stone and glass structures that reached up towards a green and pink sky, a world where horses were obsolete. It was noisy and chaotic place that was filled with monsters who acted more civilised and were wealthier than those of Thebes.

Tila looked to her master who watched Cyme and Urus leave, his