The Idaho trials and Clarence Darrow : typescript, [1967].

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The Idaho trials and Clarence Darrow : typescript, [1967].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42066507

A study of the conspiracy trials of Western Federation of Miners officials for the murder of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenburg. Included are two letters from the author to the directors of the Idaho State Historical Society and the University of Idaho library.

1 v. (23 l.)

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University of Idaho Library

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Darrow, Clarence S. (Clarence Seward), 1857-1938

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Clarence Seward Darrow, prominent Chicago trial lawyer, was born in Kinsman, Ohio on April 18, 1857. He attended Allegheny College, after which he studied one year at the University of Michigan Law School. He then worked as a lawyer in Youngstown, and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1878. He practiced in Ohio for nine years, before moving to Chicago, where he practiced privately before being appointed assistant corporation counsel for the City of Chicago. For four years he served as Chi...

Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928

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Pettibone, George, 1810-1891

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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, 1866-1954

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Went by the name of Harry Orchard. Paid union terrorist. Hired by the Western Federation of Miners to kill former Idaho governor, Frank Steunenburg. Died in prison in 1954. From the description of Confession of Harry Orchard, 1906 [microform]. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 50436717 Albert E. Horsley (Harry Orchard--pseudonym) murdered the former governor of Idaho, Frank Steunenberg in the early 1900s. Through the kindness and Christian witness of the Mrs. Steu...

Galloway, Thomas, 1796-1851

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