Harry Orchard is best known as an assassin for the Western Federation of Miners; his
bombs killed more than two dozen people in the early 1900s, including former Idaho
Governor Frank Steunenberg.
But Orchard had a criminal background before he began killing people. By his own
account, he torched businesses for the insurance money in Cripple Creek and Canada. Orchard had burglarized a railroad depo
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