One of America's jarring and bloody conflicts comes to life in this poetry collection that marks the Colorado coal mining wars of the early 1900s. Eleanor Swanson's verse remembers the people who labored to harvest fuel for the Industrial Revolution, and culminates in the shameful Ludlow Massacre. Thoroughly researched, Trembling in the Bones allows us to step back in time, to imagine the hopes and laments of people who were trampled without remorse, and in the name of progress.