Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
1 Money in the Ground
2 Company Men and Union Leaders
3 Trouble in the Fields
4 The Strike Begins
5 Hardened Lines
6 Deadly Encounters
7 Enter the Militia
8 The Battle at Ludlow
9 Insurrection
10 Final Engagements
11 Epilogue
Appendices
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Scott Martelle, is a Los Angeles Times staff writer, and a veteran of the 1995 Detroit Newspaper Strike. A native of Maine who grew up in rural western New York, he lives with his wife and their two sons in Irvine, California. Visit Scott's website at www.scottmartelle.com
"Blood Passion is the definitive account of a major landmark in the
American struggle for social justice. And the way Scott Martelle
tells the story is splendid proof that history can both be written
as vividly as a novel and also be documented with scrupulous
care."
*author of Bury the Chains and King Leopold's Ghost*
"We must welcome this carefully-researched study of one of the most
dramatic, violent, and important episodes in the history of labor
struggles in this country."
*author of A Power Governments Cannot Suppress*
"Martelle's excellent book captures [the Ludlow Massacre] with a
journalist's flair for narrative and a historian's penchant for
making the necessary inferences where they belong: on the page for
all to see."
*San Francisco Chronicle*
"...a lively journalistic account"
*The New Yorker*
"Some of the bloodiest events in the U.S. labor movement took place
in the 1890s and beyond in Western mines, as labor, management,
government, and political philosophies clashed. Martelle...brings
the era alive in his 'blend of journalism and historic inquiry'
focusing on the conflict in the Ludlow, Colo., mines in 1914, which
left 75 dead. Engrossing."
*Orange Coast*
"Scott Martelle's account of the 1914 Ludlow Mssacre and the
surrounding events is perhaps the most gripping and readable
account of these times."
*Western Legal History*
"Blood Passion is a fine contribution to the history and spatiality
of conflict in the mining industry."
*Industrial Archaeology*
"Blood Passion is the definitive account of a major landmark in the
American struggle for social justice. And the way Scott Martelle
tells the story is splendid proof that history can both be written
as vividly as a novel and also be documented with scrupulous
care."
*author of Bury the Chains and King Leopold's Ghost*
"We must welcome this carefully-researched study of one of the most
dramatic, violent, and important episodes in the history of labor
struggles in this country."
*author of A Power Governments Cannot Suppress*
"Martelle's excellent book captures [the Ludlow Massacre] with a
journalist's flair for narrative and a historian's penchant for
making the necessary inferences where they belong: on the page for
all to see."
*San Francisco Chronicle*
"...a lively journalistic account"
*The New Yorker*
"Some of the bloodiest events in the U.S. labor movement took place
in the 1890s and beyond in Western mines, as labor, management,
government, and political philosophies clashed. Martelle...brings
the era alive in his 'blend of journalism and historic inquiry'
focusing on the conflict in the Ludlow, Colo., mines in 1914, which
left 75 dead. Engrossing."
*Orange Coast*
"Scott Martelle's account of the 1914 Ludlow Mssacre and the
surrounding events is perhaps the most gripping and readable
account of these times."
*Western Legal History*
"Blood Passion is a fine contribution to the history and spatiality
of conflict in the mining industry."
*Industrial Archaeology*
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