Most miners lived in company-owned towns like Berwind near the mines where they worked. Because of their isolated location, miners were forced to buy provisions at company stores, live in company houses, and send their children to company schools, while armed guards often patrolled the gated entrances. Company towns were found throughout the coal-producing areas of southern Colorado, including up Berwind and Del Agua Canyons west of the Ludlow tent colony. When miners elected to strike against Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I), they were evicted from their homes, and many inhabitants of the Ludlow tent colony came from these company-owned towns. After the strike, workers returned to their homes in company towns, but despite some improvements instituted by the company, families continued to struggle because a typical paycheck was not sufficient to support a family. Archaeological evidence from the post-strike era suggests that families supplemented provisions purchased from the company store with home canning and small game trapping. The issues raised in the 1913-1914 strike continued to fuel strikes into the 1920s.