Short history in manuscript of Delagua by Barbara Hallas Lei, dated 1984, at Trinidad Public Library; Trinidad City Directory, vol. for 1910 on Delagua; Chronicle News (Trinidad), April 17, 1907, p. 5. For the Ludlow massacre of 1914, see Philip Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States (New York, 1980), vol. 5, pp. 196-213

Quotations are from Daughter of Earth (New York, 1929), but the facts
of the Smedley family history were verified as follows: (1) Postcards written during this period and saved by Charles Smedley, then passed to Agnes's sister Myrtle who, in turn, passed them to Sam. As of 1976, the originals were with Sam's widow, Elizabeth, with copies in the Arizona State University archives. (2) Elizabeth Smedley's statement (1976) that the family was very upset by Daughter of Earth—but none of them denied that the family history in it was true.

U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, Final Report (Washington, D.C., 1916), vols. 7, 8; quote is from George P. West's preliminary report on the Colorado mines to the commission, dated 1914 and cited in Allan Nevins, John D. Rockefeller (New York, 1940), p. 667; see also Graham Adams, Jr., The Age of Industrial Violence, 1910-1915 (New York, 1966)

Data from exhibits and materials at Colorado Historical Society, Trinidad (Baca House, Bloom House, and Pioneer Museum); photographs at Altman Studio (Trinidad); Trinidad City Directory (Trinidad, 1904-1910), vols, for 1904 to 1910, at Trinidad Public Library

In school Agnes was especially good at spelldowns. Agnes and Mamie had a pact: neither would ever spell down the other. Mamie remembers Agnes as a "smart girl, smarter than her older sister Nellie, but not so spunky as Myrtle" (her younger sister)

The Smedley family Bible, in the possession (1976) of Elizabeth Smedley, Chula Vista, California, records Charles (b. October, 1863; died September, 1936) and other children: Nellie (b. September 12, 1889; d. September 13, 1909), Myrtle (b. March 11,1894; d. May 22,1945), John (b. August 25,1896; d. April 12, 1917), and Sam (b. October 3, 1899; d. August 11, 1952)

Goodspeed Publishing Co., History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri (Chicago, 1888), pp. 80, 192; Ruth Ralls Fisher, This Small Town—Osgood (Milan, Missouri, 1975), pp. 28—31

Although Smedley was still considered an embarrassment to most kinfolk living in the area in 1976, two widows were more than willing to talk about her. At the foot of a hill, one road over from Main Street, lived Mamie Weston Mc-Cullough, the one remaining friend from Agnes Smedley's childhood. At the top of the hill, in a larger house filled with porcelain figurines and patriotic pictures painted by the owner, lived the other widow, Ruth Ralls Fisher, former Republican Party county chairwoman, town historian, and remote Smedley relation

Vgl. Annemarie Tröger: Die Dolchstoßlegende der Linken: "Frauen haben Hitler an die Macht gebracht." Thesen zur Geschichte der Frauen am Vorabend des Dritten Reiches, in: Frauen und Wissenschaft. Beiträge zur Berliner Sommeruniversität für Frauen, Berlin 1977, S. 324-355

Vgl. Argumente Studienheft Nr. 46: Frauen - Opfer oder Täter? Diskussion, Berlin 1981