More Molly
Maguire Items
Molly Maguires?
by Betty Lou McBride &
Kathleen McBride Sisack
Soft cover, 128 pgs
$12.95
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.
by Anthony Bimba
Soft cover, 144 pgs • $10.95
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
