Violence in the West: The Johnson County Range War and Ludlow Massacre: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
Description
Popular portrayals have long depicted the American frontier of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a "Wild West" marked by violence. This compelling volume by Marilynn Johnson explores the question of how violent the West truly was and what conditions made violence likely to occur. By examining the case studies of the Johnson County range war in Wyoming and the Ludlow Massacre during the southern Colorado coal strike, Johnson demonstrates that western violence in this period was a product of the transformation of the West from a rugged frontier to a capitalist mar...
ISBN(s)
0312445792, 9780312445799
