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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek. By Elizabeth Jameson. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xii, 367 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-252-02391-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 0-252-06690-1.)

Tales of class conflict and armed encampments in hard-rock mining around the turn of the century have long enticed labor and western historians. These were the quintessential militant white male workers of radical lore, members of the Western Federation of Miners and founders of both the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Socialist party. In this insightful and original study of the gold mining district around Cripple Creek, Colorado, Elizabeth Jameson brings a new richness and depth to the study of hard-rock miners. She frames her book around two famously violent strikes, 1894 and 1903-1904. But the real core of her study is the texture of class, gender, and ethnic politics in the intervening years. . . .

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