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| | Colorado Coal Mining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Daughter of a Colorado Fuel and Iron Company official briefly relates the fear of murder and kidnapping felt by her family in Trinidad, Colorado during the 1914 strike, miners’ problems, management’s lack of concern, and conduct of militia toward strikers. |
| | A coal miner since 1935, raised in the mining camps in Verwin Canyon, Colorado describes housing, recreation, and schools in the camps; his parents’ efforts to make a living; the coal strike of 1925; personal experience in coal mines including wages, working conditions, and union operations. |
| | A native of Aveyton, Colorado describes early childhood experiences; the decision for her to marry and her ten—day honeymoon harvesting wheat; homesteading; making wooden, prop beams for the coal mines; the area’s Los Penitentes religious movement, and the status of the local Catholic church. |
| ohp.fullerton.edu /colorado_coal_mining.htm (773 words) |
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