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The Great Cowboy Strike
Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West
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- English
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About this book
Although later made an icon of "rugged individualism," the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West. Mark Lause examines those neglected labour conflicts, couching them in the context of the bitter and violent "range wars" that broke out periodically across the region, and locating both among the political insurgencies endemic to the American West in the so-called Gilded Age.
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Index
African Americans, 54, 83, 220, 222
buffalo soldiers, 252
Confederacy, 218
farmers, 26
films, 265, 266
Knights of Labor, 146
racism, x–xi, 15, 164, 250–1
strikes, 250
violence toward, x–xi, 39, 41, 218, 249
voting, 42, 50, 219
war, 256
Africans, 227, 243
Alabama, 78, 81, 86, 180
Tuscumbia, 34
Altman, Robert, 268
Amalgamated Labor Union, 130
American Exceptionalism, 246, 248, 250, 253
American Federation of Labor, ix, 130, 150–1
American Free Soil Society, 127
American Revolutionary War, 154
anarchism, 149, 175, 190, 192, 207, 214
anarchist newspapers, 123, 125
anarchists, 114, 117, 120–2, 175, 196, 197, 200, 203, 205, 206
Chicago anarchists, 121, 122, 124, 125, 171, 174, 191
Antimonopolist movement, 24, 25, 136, 167, 168–9
Antimonopolist Party, 32, 110, 127, 133, 134, 186, 208
Arizona, 76, 88, 218, 224, 226, 227, 230, 236, 261
Pleasant Valley War, 224–32, 236, 264
Tombstone, 41, 151, 225, 226, 229, 231, 232, 261
Arkansas, 2, 170, 182, 219
Brotherhood of Freedom, 169, 219
Civil War, 3, 42, 220, 255
Clayton, John Middleton, 220–1
Knights of Labor, 146
Ku Klux Klan, 4...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: How the West Was Made
- One: Mysteries of the Heartland: The Emergence of Postwar Western Radicalism
- Two: The Wrong Side of the Tracks: The Dangerous Classes of the New American West
- Three: The Panhandle Strike of 1883: An Appropriately Rough Interrogation of the Sources
- Four: The Cowboy Strike Wave, 1884–6: Worker Persistence, Employer Responses,and the Political Implications
- Five: Destinies of the Industrial Brotherhood: A High-Water Mark of Western Worker Militancy, 1886
- Six: The Destiny of the Farmers’ Alliance: The Implosion of the Cattle Trade, the Union LaborParty, and the National Election Fiasco of 1888
- Seven: From Coffeyville to Woodsdale: Kansas Variations on the Uses of Political Violence
- Eight: The West Beyond Kansas: Murders and Range Wars—Arkansas,Texas, Arizona, and Wyoming
- Conclusion: Wizardry, Empire, and the Final Subjugation of the West
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index