Blood Passion

Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West by Scott Martelle. Published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2008. 1st Stated Paperback1st Printing. Paperback. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine. 266 Pgs. ISBN 9780813544199. LCCN 2006031256. On April 20, 1914, in the small railroad town of Ludlow, Colorado, striking coalminers and state National Guardsmen waged a day-long battle that ended with the burning of a strikers' tent colony. The ''Ludlow Massacre,'' as it is known, was only part of a seven-month war in which at least seventy-five people were killed. In the book, the author explores this largely forgotten American saga of coalminers rising against political and economic corruption, a fight that embraced some of the most volatile social movements of the early twentieth century. Description text copyright 2015 BooksForComfort. Item ID 31007.