Editing Walsenburg, Colorado (section)

===Colorado Coalfield War===
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[[File:The 1896 city jail in Walsenburg, Colorado, which in 1994 became the mining museum for "The City Built on Coal" LCCN2015632564.tif|thumb|left|upright|Walsenburg Mining Museum]]Walsenburg played a central role in the 1913-1914 Strike of the [[United Mine Workers of America]] against the [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.|Rockefeller]]-owned [[Colorado Fuel and Iron]], an event better known as the [[Colorado Coalfield War]]. The town was the site of a [[Colorado and Southern Railway]] stop and location of several gun-battles before and after the April 20, 1914 [[Ludlow Massacre]] that killed over a dozen women and children when [[Colorado Army National Guard|Colorado National Guard]] opened fire on a striker encampment at [[Ludlow, Colorado|Ludlow]], 22 miles south of Walsenburg. Among the first instances of violence in Walsenburg during the coal strikes is known as the Seventh Street Massacre, which saw three miners die in a shooting perpetrated by newly minted Walsenburg deputies.<ref>McGovern, George; Guttridge, Leonard. ''The Great Coalfield War''. Boston: [[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton Mifflin Company]], 1972. 125-126 p.</ref>

The Battle of Walsenburg (April 28–29, 1914) was the penultimate engagement of National Guard and militia against pro-strikers during the [[Colorado Coalfield War#10-Day War|10-Day War]] stage of the conflict.<ref>McGovern & Guttridge, 266.</ref> Several men on both sides, as well as at least one uninvolved civilian, were killed before strikers withdrew.

Walsenburg is mentioned in the [[Woody Guthrie]] song "[[Ludlow Massacre (song)|Ludlow Massacre"]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1068|title="Ludlow Massacre" By Woody Guthrie|last1=Mintz|first1=S.|last2=McNeill|first2=S.|work=Digital History|year=2018|access-date=January 21, 2020}}</ref>