AtD - (36) pgs 1007 - 1012

Bekah bekker2 at mac.com
Tue Jul 8 01:52:46 CDT 2008


I apologize if this turns up twice - it's not getting through for  
some reason - ?

Starting at page 1007 -
This whole Ludlow section is written exactly like the history as it's  
documented in several places on the net - a few mentioned below.  All  
that deliberate misery-making can get quite depressing.   There is no  
need here for anything other than a pretty straightforward account  
(and inserting some characters) - the events speak for themselves.


Winter of 1913-1914
  Stray goes from Trinidad to Ludlow (about 12 miles southeast) where  
the coal miners had been striking and living in a tent colony since  
September.

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  The tent colony was for those union members who were on strike and  
therefore had been evicted from their company owned homes.  These

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Guns lined up: (!)
http://courses.ed.asu.edu/margolis/life/homepage_files/image021a.gif


Ludlow Massacre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
http://www.cobar.org/index.cfm/ID/581/dpwfp/Historical-Foreward-and- 
Bibliography/

Excellent Photo Galleries -( scroll right)
http://www.du.edu/anthro/ludlow/cfphoto.html


Today Ludlow is a ghost town -
http://www.cultimedia.ch/ghosttowns/htme/ludlowco.htm
with a monument:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surlymonkey/935096702/

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Photo of the "Death Car"
http://courses.ed.asu.edu/margolis/life/homepage_files/image010a.gif

"They used an improvised armored car, mounted with a M1895 Colt- 
Browning machine gun that the union called the "Death Special," to  
patrol the camp's perimeters. The steel-covered car was built in the  
CF&I plant in Pueblo from the chassis of a large touring sedan.  
Because of frequent sniping on the tent colonies, miners dug  
protective pits beneath the tents where they and their families could  
seek shelter."
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre#The_mine_strike

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page 108
Jesse shows up via the Colorado and Southern railway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:C%26S_RR_map.jpg
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Light as torture / darkness as compassion
"The Colorodo militia were in fact giving light a bad name.  Military  
wisdom had it that putting searchlights on the enemy allowed you to  
see them, while blinding them to you, giving you an inestimable edge  
both tactical and psychological. In the tents, darkness in that awful  
winter was sought like warmth or quiet.  It seemed like a form of  
compassion. "

Jesse goes out - comes back smug and the lights are out.


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page 109
It was a very bad winter - tents collapse from the snow, etc.
http://www.sangres.com/history/coalfieldwar01.htm
http://courses.ed.asu.edu/margolis/life/homepage_files/exp01.htm
(stick around there - the images change)

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Strike breakers coming in via cattle cars from Pennsylvania and  
trains escorted from the Mexican border.
There were 24 languages spoken in the tent city.
http://www.cobar.org/index.cfm/ID/581/dpwfp/Historical-Foreward-and- 
Bibliography/
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Moss Gatlin (Johann Most?) preaches forbearance and violence at the  
same time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Most
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The mood grows uglier, women are raped, kids are beaten,  in Trinidad  
the military attacked women marching in support of the strike, no one  
killed (to this point)
see "The Autobiography of Mother Jones" - Part 3:
http://www.angelfire.com/nj3/RonMBaseman/mojones3.htm
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The 2 colt machine guns on armored "Death Car"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1895_Colt-Browning_machine_gun


Baldwin-Felts "detective" agency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin-Felts

"Baldwin-Felts had a reputation for aggressive strike breaking.  
Agents shone searchlights on the tent villages at night and randomly  
fired into the tents, occasionally killing and maiming people. They  
used an improvised armored car, mounted with a M1895 Colt-Browning  
machine gun that the union called the "Death Special," to patrol the  
camp's perimeters. The steel-covered car was built in the CF&I plant  
in Pueblo from the chassis of a large touring sedan. Because of  
frequent sniping on the tent colonies, miners dug protective pits  
beneath the tents where they and their families could seek shelter. "

A different pov:  http://www.baldwinfeltsdetectives.com/     (right -  
just fyi)

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page 1010
Guardsmen are bad news -  blonde - shades of Nazi

Jesse finds a level of evil never expected in adults until now.

Not one but a  whole fleet of Death Specials and the drivers fear  
they will be the victims.

Jessie denies association with Union group

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page 1011
but Jessie also steals  two 30 caliber machine gun rounds to prevent  
them being shot

Meanwhile,  (and at this point it's April 19, 1914 or so -  the day  
prior to the massacre)
Frank Traverse is in Aguilar,  between Walsenberg and Trinidad
at the 29 Luglio Saloon named for Anarchist Bresci assassinated King  
Umberto of Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Bresci

He's checking out a gun - (imaginary? no)
Benet Mercier
http://tinyurl.com/63bttu
(follow links):  http://forums.gunboards.com/archive/index.php? 
t-20386.html


Empire Mine - dangerous
there was an explosion there killing 13 people in 1919
NY Times 3 days after Ludlow Massacre:
http://tinyurl.com/4qvvb5


Frank sees a woman  who looks like Michelangelo's Pieta to others:  
(in case you forgot)
http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/Altars/Pieta/Pieta-ah06.jpg

Stray - recognizes Frank and tells him the night's young
It's Stray - dressed as a "Sister of Charity"
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/vol296/issue8/images/medium/ 
jbk60126fa.jpg

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Page 1012

Frank and Stray get reacquainted, there in the bar and  find out if  
each other is free, relationship wise - Ewball / Ren
Frank is not just Reef without the loco streak - he's different - not  
so readable now here in coalfields which were about to explode

Frank:  "They're fixing to do away with all them tents."

"Creeping along,  her nun's shadow in the search light beams..."


April 19 - Jesse has gone with Balkan kids -  "It's their Easter or  
somethin."
  The Balkan kids" would likely be Eastern Orthodox religion and  
their Easter falls at some point between early April to early May,  
following the cycle of the moon.  After several centuries of  
disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the  
Alexandrian Church (now the Coptic Church) that Easter is the first S



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