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.
Slaughter in Serene: The Columbia Coal Strike Reader
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