The fourth book in the Horrors of History historical fiction series
recounts the untold story of the Ludlow Massacre.
Colorado, 1914. A tent colony of coal miners has been on strike for
seven months, bargaining for fair wages and safer working conditions.
The Snyder family--Eleven-year-old Frank, his parents, and his four
siblings--are doing their best to hold firm with their fellow strikers
in the face of threats from the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company. But the
simmering threat of violence from the Colorado National Guard and the
company strike-breakers grows ever more oppressive. Something terrible
is coming soon.
On April 20, 1914, gunfire breaks out in a Colorado tent colony of coal
miners on strike. Men, women, and children run for their lives or cower
in crude dirt cellars under their tents. In a single day of chaos, six
strikers, two women, ten children, and two babies die. These are the
facts. But why did it happen? What was it like to be there?