Blood Passion

by Martelle, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780813544199
• ISBN10: 081354419X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-22
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Scott Martelle is a writer for the Los Angeles Times. A native of Maine who grew up in rural western New York

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Prologue	p. 10
Money in the Ground	p. 16
Company Men and Union Leaders	p. 34
Trouble in the Fields	p. 52
The Strike Begins	p. 76
Hardened Lines	p. 92
Deadly Encounters	p. 110
Enter the Militia	p. 123
The Battle at Ludlow	p. 146
Insurrection	p. 177
Final Engagements	p. 197
Epilogue	p. 211
Appendices	p. 219
Notes	p. 225
Selected Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 255
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