Blood Passion
Subtitle: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West
Publisher: Rutgers; Rutgers University Press
Published: August 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780813540627
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Social history; c 1900 - c 1914; History; History - U.S; History: American; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; United States - 20th Century (1900-1945); United States - State & Local - West; United States - 20th Century; 20th century; Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914; Coal miners; Colorado; Industrial relations; Labor unions; Ludlow
Description: "On April 20, 1914, in the small railroad town of Ludlow, Colorado, striking coalminers and state National Guardsmen waged a day-long battle that ended with the burning of a strikers' tent colony. The "Ludlow Massacre," as it is known, was only part of a seven-month war in which at least seventy-five people were killed. In Blood Passion, journalist Scott Martelle explores this largely forgotten American saga of coalminers rising against political and economic corruption, a fight that embraced some of the most volatile social movements of the early twentieth century."--Cover.