Author and journalist (Los Angeles Times staff writer). Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West (Rutgers) is my first book. It explores the 1913-14 coal strike in Southern Colorado that dissolved into guerrilla warfare between mostly immigrant miners and the Colorado National Guard. At least 75 people were killed in this largely forgotten episode -- likely the most violent showdown between labor and capital in the nation's history. More details at www.scottmartelle.com.
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