Foreword
Preface
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: The American West: A Violent Land? The Range Wars
The Johnson County War
The Mining Wars
The Colorado Coal Strike
The Taming of the West
PART II: THE DOCUMENTS The Johnson County War - Walter Baron Von Richthofen, Cattle Raising on the Plains of North America, 1885
- Emerson Hough, The Rustler, 1897
- Frank M. Canton, Frontier Trails, 1930
- Oscar "Jack" Flagg, The Waterloo of the Barons, 1892
- Cheyenne Sun, Two Notorious Characters Hanged for Cattle Stealing, 1889
- John H. Fales, Neither of them ever stole a cow, 1955
- John Clay, My Life on the Range, 1924
- Asa Shinn Mercer, The Banditti of the Plains, 1894
- Sam Clover, Riding with the Regulators, 1892
- Oscar "Jack" Flagg, The Siege at the TA Ranch, 1892
- Editorial, Cheyenne Daily Leader, 1892
- Editorial, Cheyenne Daily Sun, 1892
- F.A. Meredith, The Wyoming Cattle War, 1892
- Officers of the Ninth Cavalry, The Suggs Affair, 1892
- Asa Shinn Mercer, The Trial of the Invaders, 1894
- Anonymous, The Invasion Song, 1890s
The Colorado Coal Strike
- United Mine Workers of America, District 15, Strike Resolutions, 1913
- George West, U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, Report on the Colorado Strike, 1915
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr., The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and the Colorado Strike, 1913
- United Mine Workers of America, TheGovernor and the Coal Operators, 1914
- Colorado State Federation of Labor, Militarism in Colorado, 1914
- Mother Jones, In Rockefeller’s Prisons, 1925
- Rocky Mountain News and United Mine Workers Journal, The January 22nd Riot, 1914
- Colorado Adjutant General, Report on Battle of Ludlow, 1914
- Mary O’Neal, Those Damn Foreigners, 1971
- Pearl Jolly, Under Fire in the Ludlow Tent Colony, 1914
- William Snyder, Affidavit Given to the Commission on Industrial Relations, 1914
- Godfrey Irwin, The Killing of Louis Tikas, 1914
- John Sloan, The Aftermath of Ludlow, 1914
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Labor and Capital—Partners, 1916
PART III: EPILOGUE: Remembering Johnson County and Ludlow APPENDIXES
A Chronology of Events: The Johnson County War
A Chronology of Events: The Colorado Coal Strike
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index