On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:20:46 +0100 in soc.genealogy.misc, "Crister Lindström" <crister.lindstrom@bredband.net> wrote: > Yes Dennis, I know about that, but I have not been able to find anything > yet. The lost boys uncle was a miner in Leadville until 1906 so I have done > some research on Leadville. I have tried to find something i newspapers from > that time, but no luck. Do you know if the troubles went on into 1906? As I > live in Sweden I need any help I can get to find the right places and > databases to search. > you might try searching for sources at the library of congress: http://catalog.loc.gov/ i found a lot of possible hits with a keyword search on +Colorado +strike --- including old congressional reports from that time. you might also try a similar search at the colorado virtual library, which links all the libraries in the state of colorado http://www.aclin.org/ if you find books this way, it may be possible to borrow them from a library in your country by interlibrary loan, though it would be very slow... at the very least, if you found books cited, you can go online to the US used bookseller networks, like www.abebooks.com , to locate out of print books.