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| Click here to read an except from Ghosts of the Molly Maguires? |
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| Ghosts of the Molly Maguires? by Betty Lou McBride & Kathleen McBride Sisack Soft cover, 128 pgs $12.95 |
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| For over a decade unsuspecting visitors to the Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe, PA, have reported unusual experiences within the walls of this jail-turned- museum. Ghosts of the Molly Maguires? is a compilation of these first-hand reports. Through these accounts readers can wander the Old Jail’s cold hallways, past Cell 17 with its mysterious handprint on the wall, under the gallows on which seven of the accused Molly Maguires were put to death, and down into the eerie dungeon where even the jail’s guides won’t venture after dark. Along with these tales from the jail, readers also learn the history of the Old Jail and its most famous inmates: the Molly Maguires. |
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| The Molly Maguires by Anthony Bimba Soft cover, 144 pgs • $10.95 |
A Molly Maguire Story by Patrick Campbell Soft cover, 192 pgs • $13.95 Campbell’s granduncle was one of ten Irish-Americans who were accused of being Molly Maguires & executed in the mining regions of PA. Patrick Campbell devoted 15 years to investigating the Molly Maguire controversy in order to determine if Alexander Campbell was guilty or innocent. A Molly Maguire Story is an account of that investigation. |
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| In 1932, Bimba reconstructed a “forgotten chapter” in the history of American labor, revealing the true nature of the so-called Molly Maguires as pioneers & martyrs in a determined struggle of the Pennsylvania anthracite region miners to improve their miserable working conditions during the 1870s. |
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Making Sense of the Molly Maguires by Kevin Kenny Soft cover, 336 pages • $22.95 “Kevin Kenny’s . . . book is a story of the hardships of the mines, of the power of the owners and their paid police forces, and most especially of the power of the media to portray the events in such a way as to inflame persons around the nation. Some will see them [the Molly Maguires] as brutal terrorists & others as martyred heroes of the labor movement . . . - Keith T. Jackson, Columbia University, in a review of the History Book Club, Jan 1998 |
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| A Guide to the Molly Maguires by H.T. Crown & Mark T. Major Soft cover 234 pages • $19.95 Guidebook designed to map out the important places, people & events of the era. No attempt is made to determine the Mollies’ guilt or innocence, nor are the Mollies portrayed as either martyred heroes or bloody cut throats. Chapters include the tour, chronology, participants, mining & related industries (canals, railroads), related issues (politics, the trials, three documents, the Molly Maguire /AOH link) |
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| A Molly Maguire on Trial, The Thomas Munley Story by H.T. Crown Soft cover 181 pages • $19.95 Thomas Munley was the first Molly convicted in Schuylkill County. By understanding what happened in the Munley case, it is hoped a better understanding of the other [Molly] cases can be gained. Munley’s situation exemplifies the dangers faced by those on the bottom of the economic scale when confronting the justice system, especially when that system is controlled by the same group controlling the economy of the region. |
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| Irish Day by Leo Martin Soft cover, 115 pages • $10.95 The tale of a young boy in Schuylkill County who learns that his ancestors in the anthracite coal fields of PA were once ruled by “notorious coal barons.” But there was a group that could not be controlled. A century later history is repeating itself in the coal burning power plants, and mysteriously, there is a group that once again cannot be controlled. |
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| Postcard History Series: Carbon County by Rebecca Rabenold-Finsel Soft cover 128 pages • $19.95 From the quintessential charm of Jim Thorpe’s magnificent historic district to the mining towns & mountain retreats of Carbon County, writer & poet Rebecca Rabenold-Finsel reveals each town’s unique past through a profusion of penny postcards compiled from some of the finest collections of vintage postcards. |
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