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