Violence in the west: the Johnson county range war and Ludlow massacre : a brief history with documents

Popular portrayals have long depicted the American frontier of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a 'Wild West' marked by violence. This compelling volume by Marilynn Johnson explores the question of how violent theWest truly was and what conditions made violence likely to occur. INDICE: PART I - 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 ofAmerica, District 15, Strike Resolutions, 1913 - George West, U.S. Commissionon Industrial Relations, Report on the Colorado Strike, 1915 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr., The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and the Colorado Strike, 1913 -Colorado State Federation of Labor, Militarism in Colorado, 1914 - Mother Jones, In Rockefellerb 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 Ob 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 - Alcarita Pedregon, Affidavit Given to the Commission on Industrial Relations, 1914 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Labor and CapitalbPartners, 1916 - Woody Guthrie, The Ludlow Massacre, 1944 - 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 -

• ISBN: 978-0-312-44579-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 192
• Fecha Publicación: 30/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés