On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:25:21 +0100 in soc.genealogy.misc, "Crister Lindström" <crister.lindstrom@bredband.net> wrote: > How to find out where and how someone was shot dead between 1901 and 1906? I > have very few clues. It was a very young boy Johan Edvard Mauritz Lindstrom > b in Sweden nov 17 1884. He left for Leadville where his father worked and > arrived in summer 1901. Last trace is a phot from Greeley taken not later > than feb 1902 when the business was closed. Another Swede who returned home > in 1906 said that he was shot dead. There were also something about a > trench. Leadville was a hotbed of labor union organizing during that time period, and mine owners not only used Pinkerton private armies, but got the governor to call out the Colorado National Guard. Quite a few union organizers and strikers were killed, if I recall correctly. A lot of the Wobblies (IWW --- International Workers of the World) were Swedes, including Joe Hill, who was later executed in Utah by firing squad on trumped up charges. I'm sure there must be books available about the strikes, etc. A Google search on +Leadville +strike got over a thousand hits.

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. "Dennis P. Harris" <NO_SPAM_TO_dpharris@gci.net> skrev i meddelandet news:1al67u4htl373lvsve59g93tb2s0lto9h9@4ax.com... > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:25:21 +0100 in soc.genealogy.misc, > "Crister Lindström" <crister.lindstrom@bredband.net> wrote: > > > How to find out where and how someone was shot dead between 1901 and 1906? I > > have very few clues. It was a very young boy Johan Edvard Mauritz Lindstrom > > b in Sweden nov 17 1884. He left for Leadville where his father worked and > > arrived in summer 1901. Last trace is a phot from Greeley taken not later > > than feb 1902 when the business was closed. Another Swede who returned home > > in 1906 said that he was shot dead. There were also something about a > > trench. > > Leadville was a hotbed of labor union organizing during that time > period, and mine owners not only used Pinkerton private armies, > but got the governor to call out the Colorado National Guard. > Quite a few union organizers and strikers were killed, if I > recall correctly. A lot of the Wobblies (IWW --- International > Workers of the World) were Swedes, including Joe Hill, who was > later executed in Utah by firing squad on trumped up charges. > > I'm sure there must be books available about the strikes, etc. A > Google search on +Leadville +strike got over a thousand hits. > > >