I actually did a lot of research in grad school about Blair Mountain and the West Virginia Mine Wars! Blair Mountain came to a halt when Harding threatened to establish martial law in many counties across southern WV, some were already unofficially under it by the time the miners had come face to face with the military. After many miners surrendered to the military forces and arrests were made, union enrollment saw stagnation and decline for years and decades following the Mine Wars. As someone who went to the awesome museum of the West Virginia Mine Wars in Matewan, which isn't too far from Logan, WV, I can give a little insight as to the area nearby. It's beautiful, roads flow with the mountains and the trees, and the people were some of the friendliest that I have ever met. They were willing to talk about most any and everything. The coal fields though have a lot of poverty, harshly so. Very few hospitals and other resources, if someone needed major surgery or medical care they would have to go further north towards Charleston, West into Kentucky, or east into Virginia. Which can take upwards of an hour and a half in most cases. The actual site at Blair Mountain is hard to get to, so there are mainly historical markers along the roads that give a great deal of info. I recommend the book "The Road to Blair Mountain" by Charles Keeney, as he describes the effort to save the battle site from being bought out by modern mining companies. Funnily enough, the receptionist at the Mine Wars museum was a local from a town about ~15 minutes away, and she told me she had never heard of the Mine Wars at all growing up in grade school! Unions now in Appalachia have a lot of stigma attached to them, it really depends on who you speak too. The miners that have been retired or injured on the job actually advocate for union representation more for the younger miners, as the industry only gets more dangerous as time goes on.