Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1994
Abstract
Following in the tradition of his earlier work, Pioneer Steelmaker in the West (1976), H. Lee Scamehorn concludes his history ofCF&I. There is no need to guess here-this is a history of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company from the company's perspective. Scamehorn criticizes earlier historians for emphasizing "labor policies, particularly the coal miners' strike of 1913-14," that tended to ignore the "firm's important role in the evolution of Colorado and the American West." Then the author sets out to chronicle the growth and eventual decline of the steel works at Pueblo, Colorado, and the various coal mining operations located primarily in Huerfano and Las Animas counties.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:1 (Winter 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.