James McParland Letter 1906

Gooding, Frank Robert, 1859-1928

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Pinkerton's National Detective Agency

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Biographical Notes and Organizational History Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) 1819, Aug. 25 Born, Glasgow, Scotland 1842 Married Joan Carfrae Fled to North America fearing arrest for activities in Chartist Movement, residing first in Mont...

Western Federation of Miners

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The Western Federation of Miners, which in 1916 became the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, was from its founding in 1893 to its merger into the United Steelworkers of America in 1967 the major American union in the nonferrous metals industry. The WFM was involved in many of the important labor disputes during the turbulent period from 1893-1915, including the two Cripple Creek strikes, the Leadville strike of 1896, the Coeur d'Alene labor troubles, the Goldfield, Nevada s...

Orchard, Harry Frederick

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McParland, James P.

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James McParland was manager of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency's Denver, CO office. After the assassination of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg at Caldwell in December 1905, Governor Gooding called on the Pinkertons to direct the State of Idaho's investigation of the bombing. McParland went to Idaho in 1906 and interrogated Harry Orchard, who had been arrested soon after the murder. McParland obtained a confession that implicated most of the leadership of the Western Federation of...

Steunenberg, Frank, 1861-1905

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