Each of the events chronicled in Fire in the Hole is a unique story in a unique location. Historians have examined each of these events in detail, and there are some excellent books available for you to spend time examining each individual story. The following is a very short list of just some of the books that may be available through your local library.

Bisbee, Arizona

Forging the Copper Collar by James W. Byrkit; University of Arizona Press, 1982

Bisbee: Queen of the Cooper Camps by Lynn R. Bailey; Westernlore Press, 1983

A Brief History of Bisbee by Gary Dillard; Frontera House Press, 1994

Notes on the Development of Phelps, Dodge & Co. . . . by James Douglas, (originally published in 1906 by James Douglas); Frontera House Press, 1995

Lemuel Shattuck: A Little Mining, A Little Banking, and a Little Beer by Isabel Shattuck Fathauer Westernlore Press, 1991

Idaho

Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas; Simon and Schuster, 1997

In Mountain Shadows: A History of Idaho by Carlos Schwantes, University of Nebraska Press, 1991

A Cowboy Detective by Charles Siringo, University of Nebraska Press, 1957

The Story of My Life by Clarence Darrow, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934

Attorney for the Damned edited by Arthur Weinberg, Simon & Schuster, 1969

Joe Hill and the Wobblies

We Shall be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World by Melvin Dubofsky; University of Illinois Press, 1988

Joe Hill by Gibbs M. Smith, Peregrine-Smith Books,1984

The Case of Joe Hill by Philip Foner; International Publishers, 1965

Bill Haywood's Book by William D. Haywood; International Publishers, 1929

"Big Bill" Haywood by Melvin Dubofsky; Manchester University Press, 1987

Colorado

All that Glitters: Class, Conflict and Community in Cripple Creek by Elizabeth Jameson; University of Illinois Press, 1998

Colorado's War on Militant Unionism; James H. Peabody and the Western Federation of Miners by George G. Suggs; Wayne State University Press, 1972

The Great Coalfield War by George S. McGovern and Leonard F. Guttridge; University Press of Colorado, 1996

Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre by Zeese Papanikolas; University of Utah Press, 1982

Where the Sun Never Shines by Priscilla Long; Paragon House, 1989

Those Damn Foreigners by Mary T. O'Neal; Minerva Book, 1971

Montana

The Gibraltar: Socialism and Labor in Butte, Montana, 1895-1920 by Jerry W. Calvert; Montana Historical Society Press, 1988

Montana's Agony by Arnon Gutfeld; University Presses of Florida, 1979

The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925 by David M. Emmons; University of Illinois Press, 1989