Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of the "Colorado Coalfield War" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
Ludlow Strike, Ludlow Massacre, Colorado Coal Strike, Colorado National Guard, Colorado Civil War, “Mother” Mary Jones.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"Marshall Is Fatally Shot By Miners"
Albuquerque Evening Herald (Albuquerque, NM), September 24, 1913, Image 1, col 1-2.
"Coal Miners Fight Guard; Number Dead"
Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, IL), Ocober 28, 1913, Image 1, col. 7.
"Machine Guns Stand Off Striking Miners"
Rogue River Courier (Grants Pass, OR), October 31, 1913, Page 7, Image 7, col. 4-5.
"Shoot Each Other"
The Manning Times (Manning, SC), November 12, 1913, Image 8, col. 3.
"Coal Men May Bring Strikebreakers to Field"
Albuquerque Evening Herald (Albuquerque, NM), November 28, 1913, Image 1, col. 7.
"Truce Halts a Big Battle in Colorado"
The Sun (New York, NY), April 25, 1914, Page 20, Image 20, col. 1-2.
"War in Colorado! Woman and Babies Slaughtered"
The Seattle Star (Seattle, WA), April 28, 1914, Image 1, col. 1-7.
"Wilson Orders U.S. Soldiers into Colorado"
The Cimarron News and Cimarron Citizen (Cimarron, NM), April 30, 1914, Image 2, col. 6.
"Judges Disagree in the Colorado Strike Inquiry, But Whoever's to Blame, There Is No Doubt That It Is War There"
The Daily Missoulian (Missoula, MT), May 3, 1914, Image 1, col. 1-2,5.
"The Case for the Miners of Colorado"
The Labor World (Duluth, MN), June 20, 1914, Image 1, col. 1-7.
"Colorado Strike Costly to All Concerned"
Weekly Journal-Miner (Prescott, AZ), December 16, 1914, Page 5, Image 5, col. 7.
"The Church and Industrial Welfare"
Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Honolulu, HI), December 19, 1914, Page 19, Image 19, col. 1-4.
"Labor Leader Gets Life In Pen"
Bisbee Daily Review (Bisbee, AZ), May 4, 1915, Image 1, col. 5.
"Rockefeller Visits a Huge Case of White-Wash - Great Press-Agented Stunts"
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), September 24, 1915, Image 28, col. 1-2.

Colorado Coalfield War: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America