Frank Little and the IWW
Subtitle: the blood that stained an American family
By: Jane Little Botkin
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780806155005
Subjects: Western Federation of Miners; Miners; Labor unions; Industrial Workers of the World; Biography; History
Description: "A biography of Franklin Henry Little, a labor organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who was lynched in Butte, Montana in 1917. Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle's life in detail and reveals its connections to the history of American labor and the first Red Scare"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-474) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. The formative years, 1884-1899. Oklahoma, land of the fair god; title: Hardscabble, 1890-1894; title: Outlaws and heroes; title: Emma and the tramp miner; title: Cripple Creek, 1898-1899; title: Broken Dreams; title: Part two. One big union, 1900-1916. Bisbee, 1903; title: The visionaries, 1906; title: The organizer, 1906-1908; title: The four-word speech; title: An inquiry to one, 1909-1910; title: Reds; title: Fresno free speech fight; title: Trials and Truces; title: Hallelujah! I'm a bum!; title: San Diego, 1912; title: Midwest folly; title: Drumright, 1914; title: Wilhelm's warriors; title: The Canary; title: Part three. The dissolution, 1917-1920. The son-of-a-bitch war; title: The vigilantes; title: Butte, 1917; title: Thirteen days; title: 3-7-77; title: The big pinch; title: Sleuths and stool pigeons.