The Cripple Creek Strike; A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5 (Mass Violence In America) by Emma F. Langdon - 1969

Denver, Colorado: The Great Western Publishing Co., 1905. Hard Cover with Embossing. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound In Burgundy Pebbled Cloth With Embossed Lettering On The Front And Spine. No Ownership Marks Or Writing On The Endpapers. Dust Soiling To Top Edges. Three Corners Bumped, Two Frayed. A Couple Of Light Spots On Back Board. Copyrighted, 1904-1905. The Book Does Not Have The Foldout Illustration In The Back Entitled, "Is Colorado In America?

Denver: Great Western Publishing, 1904. hardcover. very good(-). Photo Illus., 2 folding. 596pp. Small 8vo, original maroon cloth, cloth spotted, corners lightly bumped. Denver: Great Western Publishing, 1904-05.<br/><br/> Author was a pro-union employee for the Victor Daily Record, a newspaper published in the Cripple Creek area of Colorado, when the Cripple Creek miners' strike started. This copy lacks the folding illustration at end.<br/><br/>

THE CRIPPLE CREEK STRIKE by EMMA F. LANGDON A History of Industrial Wars in COLORADO 1903-4-5 Being a Complete and Concise History of the Efforts of Organized Capital to Crush Unionism Copyrighted 1904-05 THE GREAT WESTERN PUBLISHING COMPANY Denver, Colorado Second edition [Note: 3 editions of this book were published, each one expanded from the previous. The first edition was published in Victor, Cripple Creek Gold Mining District, Colorado. The second edition was published in Denver, as was the expanded third edition. The third edition was expanded to includ historical material on the Telluride, Colorado miners strike that occurred almost simultaneously with the Cripple Creek labor strike. Collect all 3 editions for the full historical panorama!] Condition: book is in very good plus to near fine condition, complete with all illustrations and foldouts, including the exceedingly scarce lithograph, "Is Colorado In America"; endpapers at back of book have been replaced; spine very strong; pages clean,… Read More