February 2010

 

Los Hermanos Penitentes: America’s Weirdest Religious Cult

by: Lorayne Horka-Follick (Tower Books)

and

The Penitentes of the Southwest by: Marta Weigle (Ancient City Press)

January 2010

 

During the early summer months of 1846, in the midst of a mostly mundane cross-country journey to California, Tamzene Donner wrote her friend a casual letter in which she nonchalantly declared, “Indeed, if I do not experience something far worse than I have yet done, I shall say the trouble is all in getting started.”

December 2009 Issue

 

Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets by: Cadillac Man

Slumped against the curb of a cold New York sidewalk on a winter morning in 1994, just before Christmas, a homeless person who goes by the street name "Cadillac Man" opened his eyes to find himself in immense pain, his clothes and sleeping bag covered in his own blood.  He writes: "So what happened to me?

November 2009 Issue

Killing for Coal by Thomas G. Andrews

In the fall of 1913, coal miners from all over Colorado packed up their tools and equipment, emerged from their dark underground pits, and turned their backs on their oppressive employers in protest of the harsh labor conditions they had endured for years. Leaving behind their livelihoods to take on the exceedingly powerful coal companies, the striking miners of Colorado launched one of the most notorious dispute in labor history, which would come to a tragically bloody end with the infamous Ludlow massacre.