Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre - Paperback

by Zeese Papanikolas (Author), Wallace Earle Stegner (Adapted by), Wallace Earle Stegner (Foreword by)

Louis Tikas was a union organizer killed in the battle between striking coal miners and state militia in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914. In Buried Unsung he stands for a whole generation of immigrant workers who, in the years before World War I, found themselves caught between the realties of industrial America and their aspirations for a better life.

Author Biography

Zeese Papanikolas, who lives in California, is the author, with Frank Bergon, of Looking Far West: The Search for the American West in History, Myth and Literature (1978).