All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek

by Elizabeth Jameson

Book Overview

At the turn of the century, Colorado's Cripple Creek District captured the national imagination with the extraordinary wealth of its gold mines and the unquestionable strength of the militant Western Federation of Miners.

Elizabeth Jameson tells the entertaining story of Cripple Creek, the scene in 1894 of one of radical labor's most stunning victories and, in 1903 and 1904, of one of its most crushing defeats. Jameson draws on working-class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252066901
• ISBN13: 9780252066900
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"