Colorado Coalfield War
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The Colorado Coalfield War was a major labor uprising in the southern and central Colorado Front Range between September 1913 and December 1914. Striking began in late summer 1913, organized by the Un
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Miners in Primero recover a casualty from the 31 January 1910 explosion that killed 75 at the CF&I mine.
Baldwin-Felts detectives with M1895 machine gun aboard Death Special.
The Ludlow Colony as set up following the September 1913 eviction of strikers, pictured in early 1914.
Battle of Blair Mountain
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The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virgini
Colorado Coalfield War
…when strikebreaking violence typically saw fatalities exclusively among strikers, and contributed to the rapid escalation of violence in the later Battle of Blair Mountain. In 1903, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company was taken over from its founder, John C. Osgood, by a group of Colorado-based board members and investors…
Blair Mountain miner with his rifle on his shoulder
Two union coal miners sitting in a sniper's nest with a machine gun
Logan County Sheriff's deputies during the battle of Blair Mountain.
Political cartoon with Uncle Sam saying to the miners "I'll give you until noon Thursday to go back to your homes."