This is a piece of 19th century propaganda by the Pinkerton company. Because of it's old-style writing, I only made it half-way through before it wasn't worth the effort.

The book is written as a memoir of James McPharlan, but it was written by Allan Pinkerton (or at least he took credit for it).

It is a company telling of the Molly Maguires.

It doesn't differentiate the Ancient Order of Hiberians (Irish mutual aid society that sought better conditions for miners) and the Molly Maguires.

It also doesn't even mention the labor conditions that the Mollies fought to change, instead making it all out to be petty, drunken violence.

The writing also pulls lots of all-around character assassination on the people who would become martyrs at the hands of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, like Jack Kehoe. ( )