On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 at 05:46 Timothy S. Oliver sent: Re:
RARA-AVIS: Red Harvest
>Having spent the majority of my career in copper
mines and around mining
>towns, I, perhaps have a different perspective here.
I believe I read
>somewhere that Hammet spent some of his time with
Pinkertons in Butte,
>Montana. "Poisonville" was, no doubt, modeled after
Butte.
>
>I agree that the massive bloddletting portrayed in
Red Harvest goes well
>beyond any actual events, but readers shouldn't
suspend disbelief too far.
Read a book a number of years ago entitled THE SOCIAL HISTORY
OF THE MACHINE GUN. It's my recollection that this book cites
the Pinkertons as being one of the first bulk purchasers of
the Thompson sub-machine gun. These guns, of course, were
destined for use against strikers.
Bruce T. =
btownley@sirius.com
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