On a summer morning in Bisbee, Arizona, the life of Orson Pratt McRae, a 33-year-old man, was cut short. It was July 12, 1917, and McRae had been a deputy sheriff for just one day. He found himself in the midst of the historic Bisbee Deportation, a major labor conflict that pitted striking miners against powerful mining corporations. That day, Sheriff Harry Wheeler had assembled a posse of around 2,000 men to arrest and deport the striking workers.
As part of this large group, Deputy McRa ...
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