The daughter of a coal miner, she was born and raised in the mountains of West Virginia. Specifically, Bonds was raised in Marfork Hollow, where six generations of her family had lived.

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. As Anita Wolfe sat in the hallway of a Charleston, W.Va., county courtroom, waiting to testify against the U.S.

Mountaintop Crusade of a Coal Miner's Daughter. By Peter Slavin. June 8, 2003 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. At a May stockholders' meeting of one of the nation's largest coal companies, ...

T he 1980 Loretta Lynn biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter — which airs tonight at 8pm EST on TCM as part of their “Mary Stuart Celebrates Music in the Movies” series — first hit theaters over ...

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN GIRL By Rhoda Bailey Warren Academy Chicago Publishers, 174 pages, $22.50 There’s no dearth of books and films about growing up in a coal-mining town, but Rhoda Bailey ...

Loretta Lynn, the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” whose gutsy lyrics and twangy, down-home vocals made her a queen of country music for seven decades, has died. She was 90.

Loretta Lynn’s Tribute “Coal Miner’s Daughter’ aired on Sunday, Oct. at 7 p.m. There are several ways to watch with a free live stream.

In Coal Miner’s Daughter, the autobiography that became an Academy Award-winning film, Lynn told a different story — that she was married at 13 and was a mother of four by 18.

Michael Apted, the versatile filmmaker who chronicled Loretta Lynn’s rise to fame in “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and James Bond’s heroics in “The World Is Not Enough,” has died at the ...

The original Coal Miner’s Daughter soundtrack, which featured the singing talents of Spacek, Beverly D’Angelo (as Patsy Cline) and Levon Helm (as Lynn’s father, Ted Webb) was also a hit ...

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner's daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.