CU Denver prof awarded for mining strike history (Nearly 100 deaths were attributed to the strike)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.examiner.com/a-1917736~CU_Denver_prof_awarded_for_mining_strike_history.html

Mar 21, 2009 12:06 PM (4 hrs ago) AP

DENVER (Map, News) - A history professor at the University of Colorado Denver has won the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his chronicle of a deadly 1914 mining strike.

Thomas Andrews won the 2009 prize for "Killing for Coal: American's Deadliest Labor War." The book explores a mining strike in the southern Colorado town of Ludlow.

Nearly 100 deaths were attributed to the strike, including 20 in a single day in 1914 when the Colorado National Guard attacked a colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families.

The Bancroft Prize is given by Columbia University, which gave three Bancroft Prizes worth $10,000 this year. "Killing for Coal" is Andrews' first book.