[3] Wilder was the site of a violent coal-miners strike from July 1932 to April 1933, after wages had been cut by twenty percent.

[5] The strike ended shortly after the killing of United Mine Workers union leader Barney Graham in front of the company store on April 30, 1933.

[8] Company mine guard Jack "Shorty" Green was acquitted of a murder charge.

[9] The mine never recovered from the destructive events of the strike, and the seam still contains tens of millions of tons of recoverable coal.

Story of the Cumberland River Coal War Lynchings[13] based on the many murders which took place at Wilder and surrounding areas during this era.