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Article: Anthracite Lads.(Anthracite Lads: A True Story of the Fables Molly Maguires)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- December 1, 2005
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Anthracite Lads
William H. Burke
Erie County Historical Society
419 State Street, Erie, Pennsylvania 16501-1106
1883658470 $16.95
Anthracite Lads: A True Story of the Fables Molly Maguires is a unique book that strives to reexamine a facet of American History in a new light. In an era generations gone by, a group of Irish coal miners were dubbed the "Molly Maguires", and labeled "Red-Handed Murderers" by the press for their alleged role in bombings, assassinations, train derailments, ...