As some photographers, such as Lewis Dold, promoted the image of strikers and their families as organized and nonviolent, others such as Stuart Mace (photo by him below) favored the National Guard. Mace posed the guard as the protector of the general public against violent and erratic strikers.

Mace took many photographs of the members of the Colorado's National Guard Company B, including some taken on Water Tank Hill. Company B was under the leadership of Lt. Karl Linderfelt and located at the mouth of Berwind Canyon at Cedar Hill. In late March of 1914, most of the National Guard was removed from the strike zone. Company B and A remained in the field to protect coal company property. Company B was the main military unit involved in the attack on the Ludlow Colony. Even before the massacre, most of the hostile relations between strikers and the National Guard involved Company B.