Er sagte, ich sei eine Fracking-Erbin. Ich ging nach West Virginia, um es herauszufinden
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He Said I Was a Fracking Heiress. I Went to West Virginia to Find Out.
Amanda Uhle, whose great-great-grandfather had bought mineral rights to an Appalachian tract in 1897, inherited lucrative mineral rights in West Virginia. | Photos by Scott Goldsmith for POLITICO Amanda Uhle is the publisher of McSweeney’s. She writes about culture, politics and civil rights and is at work on Long Island, a reported history of her family. I’m in the adventurous habit of answering the phone for unknown callers. Last May, I was surprised when I slid my finger across my iPhone and heard a slight hesitation followed by an Appalachian drawl. “Mrs. Uhle?” a West Virginian asked on the other side of the line, mispronouncing my last name and using the married honorific, which, though happily married, I never allow. The
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