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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Trinidad, Colorado, Branson, Colorado, Starkville, Colorado, Cokedale, Colorado, Aguilar, Colorado, Kim, Colorado, Ludlow Massacre, Maxwell Land Grant, Comanche National Grassland, Vermejo Park Ranch, Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, National Register of Historic Places listings in Las Animas County, Colorado, Boncarbo, Colorado, Ludlow Tent Colony Site, Sopris, Colorado, Weston, Colorado, Villegreen, Colorado, Tyrone, Colorado, Trinchera, Colorado, Jansen, Colorado, Delhi, Colorado, Thatcher, Colorado, Model, Colorado, Hoehne, Colorado, Raton Pass, West Spanish Peak, Colorado State Highway 12, Spanish Peaks Wilderness, Fountain County, Jefferson Territory, Colorado State Highway 389, Black Mesa, Colorado State Highway 10, East Spanish Peak, Ludlow Monument, Madrid, Colorado, Cordova Pass, Apishapa River, Two Butte Creek, Trinidad Lake State Park, North Fork Vermejo River, Ludlow, Colorado, Victor American Hastings Mine Disaster, Lake Maloya, Cucharas Pass, Temple Aaron, Segundo, Colorado, Monument Park, Colorado. Excerpt: The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914. The deaths occurred after a day-long fight between strikers and the Guard. The massacre resulted in the violent deaths of between 19 and 25 people; sources vary but all sources include two women and eleven children, asphyxiated and burned to death under a single tent. Ludlow was the deadliest single incident in the southern Colorado Coal Strike, lasting from September 1913 through December 1914. The strike was organized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against coal mining companies in Colorado. The three largest companies involved were the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), the Rocky Mountain Fuel...
