breaking it down

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... this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado ... >>

Anybody wants to get a leg up while waiting might read Big Trouble by J. 
Anthony Lukas, about the Colorado laobr troubles and itself a brick of a book with 
a Pynchonesque cast of characters:  Clarence Darrow, Theodore Roosevelt, 
Pinkerton James McParland (who infiltrated the Molly Mcguires), James Hawley, 
Ethel Barrymore, Walter Johnson, among others.