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The Last Man on the Mountain
15 minutes Posted Oct 8, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
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In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mountaintop removal mining in a corner of West Virginia called Pigeonroost Hollow. There used to be dozens of houses in the area, but within a few years there was just one. It belonged to Jimmy Weekley.
This story originally aired on NPR in 2011.