On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado\'s industrial barons.
Killing for Coal offers a bold and original pers.
The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, and laid waste to two company towns.
When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners\' families lay dead.
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado\'s industrial barons