Slaughter in Serene: The Columbine Coal Strike Reader
Lowell May and Richard Myers, ed.
196 pages, softcover: $19.05
Bread and Roses Workers’ Cultural Center, 2005.
workersbreadandroses.org, 303-433-1852

Coal mining has played a major role in the histories of most Western states, including Colorado. Slaughter in Serene tells the story of striking miners in the late 1920s, desperate for fair pay and more humane working conditions in Colorado’s coal mines. Six were murdered by state police at the Columbine Mine, near the now-vanished hamlet of Serene, north of Denver. First-person reminiscences from survivors make the story vivid.

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Slaughter in Serene: The Columbia Coal Strike
Reader

by Staff, High Country News
February 6, 2006

<h1>Slaughter in Serene: The Columbia Coal Strike<br /> Reader</h1> <p class="byline">by Staff, High Country News <br />February 6, 2006</p> <p><b>Slaughter in Serene: The Columbine Coal<br /> Strike Reader</b><br /> Lowell May and Richard Myers,<br /> ed.<br /> 196 pages, softcover: $19.05<br /> Bread and<br /> Roses Workers’ Cultural Center, 2005.<br /> workersbreadandroses.org, 303-433-1852 </p> <p> Coal mining has<br /> played a major role in the histories of most Western states,<br /> including Colorado. <i>Slaughter in Serene</i> tells<br /> the story of striking miners in the late 1920s, desperate for fair<br /> pay and more humane working conditions in Colorado’s coal<br /> mines. Six were murdered by state police at the Columbine Mine,<br /> near the now-vanished hamlet of Serene, north of Denver.<br /> First-person reminiscences from survivors make the story vivid.</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=189054">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Slaughter in Serene: The Columbia Coal Strike<br /> Reader</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-315/slaughter-in-serene-the-columbia-coal-strikereader/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=111898&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-315/slaughter-in-serene-the-columbia-coal-strikereader/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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