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Industrializing the Rockies: Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914 (Mining the American West)
Industrializing the Rockies Growth Competition and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming 1868-1914 - Mining the American West
Author: David A. Wolff
The two defining moments of Western coalfield labor relations have been massacres: Wyoming's Rock Springs Massacre of 1885 and Colorado's Ludlow Massacre of 1914. But it wasn't just the company guns that were responsible for the deaths of 28 Chinese coal miners and 13 women and children. It was the result of racial tensions and the economics of ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781607323556
ISBN-10: 1607323559
Publication Date: 8/15/2014
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Book Type: Paperback
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