Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

On a spring morning in 1914, 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 Coalfie...