On April 20, 1914, amidst the escalating tensions of a coal miners' strike in Ludlow, Colorado, a young boy named Frank Snyder was killed. The eleven-year-old male was inside his family's tent at the Ludlow tent colony, a makeshift home for the striking miners and their families. For much of that day, a fierce battle raged between the striking coal miners and the Colorado National Guard, forcing many, including the Snyder family, to take shelter in pits dug beneath their tents to escape the indi
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