Replying to @Rex's Gear Reviews Woody Guthrie’s song “The Ludlow Massacre” tells the true story of a bloody battle in the Colorado Coalfield wars. His accounting of it differs slightly from what historians know of it today - but not by much. The Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company attacked a tent colony of roughly 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. Approximately 21 people were killed, including miners' wives and children.
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