Less than a century ago, more than 75 people were killed in a brutal, drawn-out showdown between Rockefeller-controlled Colorado mine owners and striking, mostly immigrant, coal miners. So why didn't you know that? Check out www.scottmartelle.com for details.Current project: The Fear Within, a look at the 1949 Foley Square trial of 11 American communists that helped unleash the Red Scare.Personal: Native of Maine, grew up mostly in western New York, spent 10 years in Detroit (18 months of it on strike) before moving to Southern California in 1997 to become a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times.
For details on this and other Aug. 20-25 appearances from Boulder to Trinidad, including a Reading at Tattered Cover in LoDo (C-SPAN planning to tape it), see www.scottmartelle.com.
... Posted by Scott Martelle on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:35:00 PST
The book
The book is due out August 15 from Rutgers University Press. For more details, check out my website, www.scottmartelle.com. This is what it's about:
By early April 1914, Colorado Governor Elias Ammons... Posted by Scott Martelle on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:46:00 PST
