Killing for Coal offers an original perspective on the Ludlow Massacre and the Great Coalfield War. In a sweeping story that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews examines the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers' strikes over the course of nearly half a century. He reveals a complex world shaped by the connected forces of land, labor, corporate industrialization,...

Lesser known than the gold and silver mines of Western lore, Southern Colorado's extensive coal mines fueled the engines for Western industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Of the numerous companies operating the mines, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) was king. With a total of 62 mines, the majority of them in Colorado's Las Animas, Huerfano, and Fremont Counties, CF&I ruled the lives of countless miners in company towns...

A Mary Thomas play based on the true events of the Ludlow Massacre. Written by Barbara Yule.

Utilizing archival photographs and live on-site footage, the stories of the children of miners who came from all over the world to settle in Colorado mining camps and mine coal in the Rocky Mountains is told.

A fun-filled social history about the evolution of a once tiny, working-class, ethnic, mining town, Crested Butte, Colorado, into one of today's major destination tourist towns and recreation communities that cater to the recreation needs of both its upper-middle class visitors and residents alike. The book focuses on the early stages of transformation, from the late 1960's to the latter part of the '70's -- the days that were the most racous, wild,...

Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.