We continue the Gilded Age saga of the Coal Wars with the story of the Colorado Coalfield War. The Rockefeller takeover of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company has resulted in worsening conditions for coal workers, leading the miners to join a massive union strike in Southern Colorado. But things escalate to all out war when trigger happy company men commit the worst atrocity of the Coal Wars: the Ludlow Massacre.

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Music:

Co Ag - "What's Left", "Project Machine and Beyond", "Betrayal", "The Lost City of Atlantis Part 1", "Argoblitz", "Don't Ask Why", "Are You Still Looking", "Collider Full Mix"

Sources:

American History Tellers (Coal Wars)

https://wondery.com/shows/american-history-tellers/season/27/

"The Great Coalfield War" - George S. McGovern, Leonard F. Guttridge

https://archive.org/details/greatcoalfieldwa0000mcgo

"Killing For Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War" - Thomas G. Andrews

https://archive.org/details/killingforcoalam0000andr

Colorado Coalfield War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Coalfield_War



Colorado Fuel and Iron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Fuel_and_Iron