"It is extremely important that readers of all ages know what happened at Ludlow, and the role played by that spectacular rabble-rouser, Mother Jones. Lois Ruby has told this gripping story with just the right balance of fact and dramatic power. The eyes of the nation were on southern Colorado in 1914, when much that has made America what it is-the lives of immigrants, the conflict between corporate power and organized labor-lay in the balance. This story will speak to our time as provocatively as it spoke a century ago, and this book will engage and inform anyone who gives it attention."

-David Mason, Colorado Poet Laureate

"Strike! Mother Jones and the Colorado Coal War is a book I would recommend to teachers, especially to those teaching about Colorado at any grade level, and to students in middle and high school. It is a book not only about Colorado but also about workers' rights, collective bargaining, the United Mine Workers, and the development of labor laws in the United States."

-Susan Andrews, History Colorado Review