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Photographs property of either Denver Public Library or the family of Barron Beshoar, all care of David Mason. Please click individual photos for proper credit info, or contact Jaimie Stevenson at jstevenson@coloradocollege.edu.

ABOVE: unknown, John Lawson, Louis Tikas, Robert Harlan, later mayor of Seattle; BELOW: Camp Beshoar–U.M.W.of A. Military Headquarters, Trinidad, Colorado. April 27th, 1914

Strikers Tent Colony, Ludlow, Colorado (1914)

Residents of the Ludlow tent colony

Man examines pit beneath where a tent had stood on its platform. (1914)

Ruins of Ludlow tent colony

Body of Frank Rebano

John Lawson, Mother Jones, Horace Hawkins (1914?)

Line of funeral march of Ludlow victims

Showing coffins of victims in front of catholic church in Trinidad, Colorado

John R. Lawson stands in front of the United Mine Workers of America Monument in Southern Colorado

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The Symposium

Since news of southern Colorado Coal strikes first made national headlines in the early twentieth century, writers have put accounts, stories, interpretations, and memories into writing in the press, in photographs, in poetry, in monographs. Writers have called the Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914, which effectively ended the southern Colorado Coal war, the bloodiest labor conflict in American history. What it meant to immigrant laborers, to corporate barons, soldiers and ordinary businesspeople has been of grave importance to the nation, though for a time it seemed the events and their implications would go forgotten. Recently, the Ludlow Massacre has engendered a series of books—academic, journalistic, poetic, fictional—that are bringing events and the arguments about them back into light. This symposium on Ludlow will raise questions about what actually happened on that day (and before and after), how we know, how we tell the tale. In panel discussions and workshops the symposium will ask us to deal with narrations of events, problems in teaching histories, and writing about Ludlow.

Speakers Include

• Thomas Andrews—Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado Denver. Author of Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (2008) • Anne Hyde—Professor of History and Director of Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies, Colorado College. • Scott Martelle—Journalist. Author of Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West (2008) • David Mason—Professor of English, Colorado College. Author of Ludlow, a verse novel (2007) • Maria Montoya—Associate Professor of History, New York University. Author of Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840–1940 (2002). At work on a book on the Colorado Fuel & Iron, Co.. • Zeese Papanikolas—Writer. Author of Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre (1991)

At Colorado College April 9–11 2009, On Writing and Teaching Histories of the Ludlow Massacre

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