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Industrializing the Rockies : growth, competition, and turmoil in the coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914 / David A. Wolff.
Lippincott Library HD8039.M62 U697 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolff, David A.
- Series:
- Mining the American West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coal miners--Colorado--History.
- Coal miners.
- Coal miners--Wyoming--History.
- Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining--Rocky Mountains Region--History.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914.
- Rock Springs Massacre, Rock Springs, Wyo., 1885.
- Coal miners--Labor unions--Colorado--History.
- Coal miners--Labor unions--Wyoming--History.
- Industrial relations--Rocky Mountains Region--History.
- Industrial relations.
- Coal trade--Rocky Mountains Region--History.
- Coal trade.
- History.
- Coal miners--Labor unions.
- Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining.
- Rocky Mountains Region.
- Wyoming.
- Colorado.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2003]
- Contents:
- Mining begins, 1868-1873
- Panic and turmoil, 1873-1878
- Coal mining comes of age, 1878-1883
- The great upheaval, 1884-1885
- Prosperity, competition, and consolidation, 1886-1892
- Collapse and recovery, 1893-1900
- Struggle and change, 1901-1903
- United Mine Workers in the West, 1903-1912
- Explosion at Ludlow, 1913-1914.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0870817477
- OCLC:
- 52311879
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