Part one : Introduction : the American west : a violent land?

The range wars

The Johnson county war

The mining wars

The Colorado coal strike

The taming of the west

Part two : the documents

The Johnson county war : Cattle raising on the plains of North America, 1885 / Walter Baron Von Richthofen ; The rustler, 1897 / Emerson Hough ; Frontier trails, 1930 / Frank M. Canton ; The waterloo of the Barons, 1892 / Oscar "Jack" Flagg ; Two notorious characters hanged for cattle stealing, 1889 / Cheyenne Daily Sun ; Neither of them ever stole a cow, 1955 / John H. Fales ; My life on the range, 1924 / John Clay ; The banditti of the plains, 1894 / Asa Shinn Mercer ; Riding with the regulators, 1892 / Sam Clover ; The siege at the TA Ranch, 1892 / Oscar "Jack" Flagg ; Time for decided action (editorial), 1892 / Cheyenne Daily Leader ; It is tough (editorial), 1892 / Cheyenne Daily Sun ; The Wyoming cattle war, 1892 / F.A. Meredith ; The Suggs affair, 1892 / Officers of the ninth cavalry ; The trial of the invaders, 1894 / Asa Shinn Mercer ; The invasion song, 1890

The Colorado coal strike : Strike resolutions, 1913 / United mine workers of America, district 15 ; Report on the Colorado strike, 1915 / George P. West, U.S. Commission on industrial relations ; Correspondence on the Colorado fuel and iron company and the Colorado strike, 1913 / Office of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and L. M. Bowers ; Governor Elias M. Ammons, spineless tool of the coal operators (cartoon), 1914 / United mine workers of America ; Militarism in Colorado, 1914 / Colorado state federation of labor ; In Rockefeller's prisons, 1925 / Mother Jones ; The January 22 riot, 1914 / Rocky Mountain news and united mine workers journal ; The battle of Ludlow, 1914 / Colorado adjutant general ; Escape from Ludlow, 1971 / Mary Thomas O'Neal ; Under fire in the Ludlow tent colony, 1914 / Pearl Jolly ; Affidavit given to the commission on industrial relations, 1914 / William Snyder ; The killing of Louis Tikas, 1914 / Godfrey Irwin ; Class war in Colorado, 1914 / John Sloan ; Labor and capital - partners, 1916 / John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Part three : Epilogue : remembering Johnson county and Ludlow