one of the famous pinkerton programs is they take out the molly maguire store in the coal pennsylvania and hang some of them based on this big east is -- investigation. they were irish. that was a hotly debated subject. in the west, and wyoming, what i found is people do not like going to court, they like something things themselves. work how do you see your contributing to the overall understanding of western history? particularly because it sounds like wyoming is an area of focus for you? guest: wyoming, melt colorado, new mexico, laces like that. i think detectives were almost everywhere. in all these rural areas, they were in the saloons. in 1905ersity of idaho -- the pinkerton send a detective who runs on the track team for a month. the: d.c. that fitting in larger picture of the west? guest: it is not the individuals on the frontier, like we used to think. there is the military cleansing the native americans, or the railroads, the telegraph lines. the federal government and washington, d.c. has a huge role in taking in the future region and make it part of the nation. the questio