ATDTDA (7): 195-196 decoding

[Peter Petto]

Owner's Association - loose association of mine owners formed to look 
after their common interests, primarily to resist labor organization 
beginning in the late 1890s...a more formal Colorado Mining 
Association (same purpose) began in the 1870s, and still exists

Cripple Creek - center of serious labor disputes (the Colorado Labor 
Wars) and subject of popular song by The Band

Geronimo - prominent Apache leader who fought against the United 
States westward expansion into his people's tribal territory

Fort Bliss - in El Paso County, Texas (it is now huge)

Coeur d'Alenes - Idaho mining region (Native American author Sherman 
Alexie, author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, is a 
Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian)


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Peter Petto <ppetto at apk.net>
Bay Village, OH