130 years ago today, on June 19, 1896, silver miners in Leadville, Colorado went on what would become one of the bloodiest strikes in American history. Mine owners had already stockpiled weapons inside their mines and signed a secret agreement never to recognize the Western

132 years ago today, the WFM won the Cripple Creek Strike of 1894—a rare moment where state troops were deployed to support miners. Populist Gov. Waite turned the militia against owner-aligned deputies, serving as a brief, powerful glimpse of what a worker-farmer alliance can