As I recall there's no significant western content in "The Valley of Fear."
It is based on the Molly Maguires, but not transplanted west.
Stephen
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Joy Matkowski <jmatkowski1@comcast.net>wrote:
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> That's a lot of fictionalizing. The Molly Maguires weren't a union, let
> alone a corrupt union, and, more important, they were in Pennsylvania.
> Was the whole kit and caboodle reset somewhere in the Wild West?
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> Joy
> now reading Connelly: Echo Park
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> Patrick King wrote:
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> > A case could be made that A STUDY IN SCARLET is the very first
> western/mystery cross-genre piece.
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> > THE VALLEY OF FEAR also had its motive set in the American west. The
> villains in that was a gangster-run union rather than Mormons. Both stories
> are based on fact. THE STUDY IN SCARLET take for its premise the Mountain
> Meadow massacre of 1857 in which a group of high-level Mormons instigated an
> attack on an emigrant wagon train, attempting to make it look like a Paiute
> native attack. THE VALLY OF FEAR fictionalizes the exploits of Pinkerton
> mole, James McParland who famously infiltrated the mine workers union, The
> Molly Maguires.
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