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Book Synopsis Stories From The Colorado Coal Mines by : George E. Ogle; Dorothy L. Ogle
Download or read book Stories From The Colorado Coal Mines written by George E. Ogle; Dorothy L. Ogle and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STORIES FROM THE COLORADO COAL MINES is a collection of George Ogle’s books of historical fi ction. The fi rst story focuses on events surrounding the “Ludlow Massacre” (1914) and the “Columbine Massacre” (1927). The second book revisits these same events, but with another look at the tumultuous period in between, that insured a disastrous outcome. The third is a story based on Japanese immigrant workers in the early 20th century. Four young Japanese men from different backgrounds meet aboard ship on their way to work in the USA. Each man forges his own adjustment to his new environment in the midst of death and racial tensions.
Book Synopsis Once a Coal Miner by : Phyllis Smith
Download or read book Once a Coal Miner written by Phyllis Smith and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Facts Concerning the Struggle in Colorado for Industrial Freedom by : Committee of Coal Mine Managers
Download or read book Facts Concerning the Struggle in Colorado for Industrial Freedom written by Committee of Coal Mine Managers and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Killing for Coal by : Thomas G. Andrews
Download or read book Killing for Coal written by Thomas G. Andrews and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners’ families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, and laid waste to two company towns. Killing for Coal offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a sweeping story of transformation that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews illuminates 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, and workers’ resistance. Brilliantly conceived and written, this book takes the organic world as its starting point. The resulting elucidation of the coalfield wars goes far beyond traditional labor history. Considering issues of social and environmental justice in the context of an economy dependent on fossil fuel, Andrews makes a powerful case for rethinking the relationships that unite and divide workers, consumers, capitalists, and the natural world.
Download or read book Lost Superior written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buildings in the Town of Superior, Colorado, that have been torn down or moved since the town's industrial coal mine closed in 1945.
Book Synopsis The Great Coalfield War by : George Stanley McGovern
Download or read book The Great Coalfield War written by George Stanley McGovern and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A definitive study of the Ludlow massacre and events leading up to it. This story has much drama and struggle, and it holds some crucial lessons about industrial strife and about how viciously brutal AmericaÂs capitalists were a couple of generations ago." -- Los Angeles Times -- "The effect of this work is simply enraging, for the reality that the documentation evokes, both of wickedness and of the suffering that that wickedness caused, is intolerable." -- The New Yorker -- In the early 20th century, Colorado yielded more than a million tons of coal annually -- hacked and blasted out by immigrants from Eastern Europe living in crudely built towns owned by powerful mine operators. The companies owned the stores, ran the schools, churches, hospitals, and saloons, and bribed the region's lawmen to keep union organizers out. Mine safety was all but unheard-of when in 1913 mine explosions killed more than four hundred workers in just two of the mines. The United Mineworkers' Union infiltrated the towns, and thirteen thousand miners and their families made one mass exodus to establish a tent colony near the rail outpost at Ludlow. Months of fighting between the miners and company gunmen assisted by the Colorado State National Guard culminated in the Ludlow Massacre where tents were set afire, suffocating women and children who had sought shelter in storage pits beneath tent floorboards. The resultant public scandal compelled Washington to intervene, but it would take years before Colorado's coal miners gained union protection. The Great Coalfield War is a part of western history and an especially important part in view of today's declining union enrollments and the national movement to deregulate workplace safety laws and the federal agencies that enforce them. --Midwest Book Review
Book Synopsis Mining Towns of Southern Colorado by : Staci Comden
Download or read book Mining Towns of Southern Colorado written by Staci Comden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images from the archives of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I).
Book Synopsis My Heart Lies Here by : Laurie Marr Wasmund
Download or read book My Heart Lies Here written by Laurie Marr Wasmund and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913, the United Mine Workers of America led a daring strike against John D. Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel & Iron Company that would end in war. In this novel of the Ludlow Massacre, a young woman learns the true meaning of love, sacrifice, and what it means to be an American. Newly arrived in Colorado, Christian Scott is caught in a web of divided loyalties. Torn between her dedication to her brother, Alex, who clings to his proud Scottish heritage, and her love of Pearl, a spirited orphan whose flight from abuse and poverty lands her on the Scotts' doorstep, Christian experiences heartbreak when the two become enemies. At the same time, she secretly joins with a passionate Greek miner on a dangerous course of resistance against the coal company and the brutal Colorado National Guard that threatens to destroy everything--and everyone--she loves.
Book Synopsis A Brief History of Erie, Colorado: Out of the Coal Dust by : James B. Stull
Download or read book A Brief History of Erie, Colorado: Out of the Coal Dust written by James B. Stull and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1866 until 1979, Erie was one of the largest coal-producing towns in the nation. Numerous settlers contributed to building Old Town and making it one of the liveliest communities in northern Colorado. The Columbine Mine massacre in 1927 incited major changes to coal mining practices, inspiring unionization efforts nationally. The improved rights and working conditions that miners struggled to win benefit employees across America today. Emeritus Professor James B. Stull illuminates Erie's earliest pioneers, houses, schools and churches and the town's enduring evolution.
Book Synopsis Stories from the Arroyos by : Kathryn Carpenter
Download or read book Stories from the Arroyos written by Kathryn Carpenter and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you wonder what it was like to be young and living in a coal camp? You probably never thought about it! Children living in 1900 did not have running water or indoor plumbing. There were no computers, cell phones, or iPads. What did they do? How did they survive? As you read Stories from the Arroyos, you will be taken back in time. You will learn how children worked, played, and dreamed. You will discover history and learn cultural differences. You will read about sympathy, caring, and trusting. Come, walk with me into the past and spend some time visiting the children, ages seven to thirteen. If you are this age now, you will enjoy these stories. So lets take a walk into the arroyos and see what was left behind and what it all meant to the children of that era. Some things never changelike imagination, dreams, and hope.
Book Synopsis Colorado Mining Stories by : Caroline Arlen
Download or read book Colorado Mining Stories written by Caroline Arlen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews with Colorado miners, mostly hardrock miners, working in the San Juan Mountains mining gold, silver, lead, zinc, and copper. Includes a glossary of mining terminology.
Download or read book Colorado Mining written by Duane A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with many black and white historic photographs of mines and mining towns in Colorado, this book traces the industry from its development in 1859 to the late 1970s.
Book Synopsis The Price of Colorado Coal by : George Ewing Ogle
Download or read book The Price of Colorado Coal written by George Ewing Ogle and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Price of Colorado Coal is based on two events in the history of Colorado coal mining that are called massacres: Ludlow (1914) and Columbine (1927). Each is a drama of deep tragedy. At Ludlow an entire tent village, occupied by coal miners and their families, was riddled by company and militia machine gun fire and then burned to the ground, killing men, women and children. Thirteen years later at Columbine, picketing unionists were ambushed; six were killed and twenty wounded. A philosophy of unrestrained capitalism, wherein the captains of industry had the right to freely use labor in any way they saw fit, still ruled in the minds of Colorado's coal barons. This philosophy conflicted sharply with the newly emerging demand of workers for the right to organize and improve wages and conditions of labor. Ludlow and Columbine are but two instances of the industrial warfare that wracked eastern Colorado for a hundred years. This is a book of dramatic fiction with a message from history. All the characters in the story are fictional except for Mother Jones, Josephine Roche, John Osgood, John Rockefeller and other well-known persons. The story centers on two boys who begin their lives as miners at the ages of eight and ten. Following the deaths of their fathers in mining accidents, they become leaders in the union movement and are entangled in the tragic massacres of Ludlow and Columbine. As the mining communities struggle for better safety conditions and human dignity there is amazing solidarity among workers who speak different languages and come from many different cultures. Because of the collusion between corporations and the state militia, however, much suffering is inflicted on the miners. Within this sad drama are stories of love and community as well as a glimpse of the joy of being coalminers.
Download or read book Coal People written by Richard J. Clyne and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The area of focus for this study is the coal towns in Las Animas and Huerfano counties.
Book Synopsis General Summary of the Colorado Coal Production by : Colorado. State Coal Mine Inspection Department
Download or read book General Summary of the Colorado Coal Production written by Colorado. State Coal Mine Inspection Department and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King Coal written by Upton Sinclair and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-05-01T21:43:50Z with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Coal explores the lives of coal miners in early 20th century America. The story follows a privileged student who takes a job as a miner to gain firsthand experience of harsh conditions and mistreatment of workers. The protagonist is shocked by what he discovers and becomes an advocate for the miners, leading them in their fight against the mine owners and the political system that supports them. Sinclair’s writing style is known for its vivid descriptions and its ability to bring to life the characters and their struggles. Like much of his work, King Coal is a fictitious account of real issues. The novel is based on the author’s research in Colorado during the coal strikes of 1913–14, and is considered a classic of the muckraking genre that exposed the social and economic problems of the time. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Book Synopsis Stories from the Mines by : Thomas M. Currá
Download or read book Stories from the Mines written by Thomas M. Currá and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of European immigrants came to northeastern Pennsylvania to work in the coal mines. Stories from the Mines chronicles the struggle of these miners to earn a decent wage, alleviate dangerous working conditions, and gain respect. The perilous work the miners performed for extremely low pay, Matkosky and Currà argue, laid the foundation for America's Industrial Revolution and the modern labor movement. This powerful book traces the miners' epic human rights battle from their arrival in the United States to the Great Strike of 1902 and the inception of the United Mine Workers. Its companion documentary, available separately on DVD, blends dramatic reenactments and never-before-seen archival footage and photographs to recount a conflict that inspired the involvement of Clarence Darrow and Theodore Roosevelt. Stories from the Mines highlights the indelible contribution to America's history made by anthracite coal and the men who mined it.
