Research Catalog

Title

Buried unsung : Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre / Zeese Papanikolas ; foreword by Wallace Stegner.

Author

Papanikolas, Zeese.

Publication

Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, 1982.

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Description

xix, 331 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The story of a search into the fragments of the life of a union organizer called Louis Tikas, a Greek immigrant in 1906 from Crete, who was killed in the fighting incident to the miner's strike at Ludlow, Colorado in April 1914. Tikas's true name, according to the author's research, was Ilias Anastasios Spantidakis.

Series Statement

The University of Utah publications in the American West ; v. 14

Uniform Title

The University of Utah publications in the American West ; v. 14.

Alternative Title

Ludlow Massacre.

Subject

• Tikas, Louis, -1914
• Greek Americans > Biography
• Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914
• Labor unions > Colorado > Officials and employees > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 321-324.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Wallace Stegner -- Beginnings -- 1746 Market Street -- A Lesson in Economics -- The Northern Field: The Making of an Organizer -- Organizing: The Southern Field -- The Strike Begins -- The Coming of the Militia -- A Game of Golf -- His Voice -- The Women -- The Investigation -- The Memorial Wheat -- Ludlow -- Survivors -- Loutra -- A Note on Greek Oral Poetry and History -- Interviews.

ISBN

0874802113 :

LCCN

^^^82013475^

OCLC

• 8627589
• SCSB-10854274

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library