Big Trouble is about the 1905 murder of the former Governor of Idaho Frank Steunenberg. Pinkerton dectective James McParland kidnaps radical labor leader "Big Bill" Heywood and his cronies from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho for the crime, They are defended by Clarence Darrow, it was called "The first trial of the Century".
huge book that goes into great detail about the mining west, labor, the Pinkertons, social values of the time and town life in the old west.
4 stars