Hundreds of Irish mineworkers and their families fled Pennsylvania’s Coal Region in the violent and turbulent 1870s. Many of them traveled 1,700 miles west to the silver mining boomtown of Leadville, Colorado – and some brought their legal jeopardy with them. Among the refugees were men accused of involvement in Molly Maguire activity in the anthracite coal fields. An illustration of the alleged Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region – Har…
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