That's a lot of fictionalizing. The Molly Maguires weren't a union, let
alone a corrupt union, and, more important, they were in Pennsylvania.
Was the whole kit and caboodle reset somewhere in the Wild West?
Joy
now reading Connelly: Echo Park
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> THE VALLEY OF FEAR also had its motive set in the American west. The villains in that was a gangster-run union rather than Mormons. Both stories are based on fact. THE STUDY IN SCARLET take for its premise the Mountain Meadow massacre of 1857 in which a group of high-level Mormons instigated an attack on an emigrant wagon train, attempting to make it look like a Paiute native attack. THE VALLY OF FEAR fictionalizes the exploits of Pinkerton mole, James McParland who famously infiltrated the mine workers union, The Molly Maguires.
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