Kim,

This thread caused me to try to remember a murder ballad that I first heard when I was a teenager ... over 100 years ago. It is titled "Harry Orchard," and it's well steeped in frontier Idaho history. My ponderings drove me to my local library, where lo and behold, I found this book: "BIG TROUBLE," by J. Anthony Lukas, Simon & Schuster, 1997.

By the way, "Harry Orchard" is in "American Murder Ballads." CHEERS, Bob