| re: When in doubt, let your story make your thematic points. (spoilers) | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 02:30 pm EST 02/17/20 | |
| In reply to: When in doubt, let your story make your thematic points. - Delvino 12:00 pm EST 02/17/20 | |
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| Are You There is still there I havent listened to the OBC lately to see if its intact or rewritten. Molly's father and brothers are gone. SHe visits the Leadville silver mine for a reason I cant recall. The men want her to leave because women are unlucky at mines - actually they are only considered unlucky working IN mines. In any event, there is a mine fire, and a man is killed, and so she meets cute the widow and forms a lifelong bond. As you do. Then America goes iff the silver standard to the gold standard, and the mine is worthless. But Jonny figures out how to dig a gold mine, and makes himself (and Horace Tabor) richer still. Now much is made of the production going back to more true details off Molly's life. But Horace Tabor never owned a goldmine. And the loss of the gold standard did nothing to the value of silver. Horace Tabor and Baby Doe became even richer with their second silver mine, 'The Matchless'. The show talks about the Gold Standard being established in 1892, when Grover Cleveland beat William Weaver for President. They fail to mention that Weaver was not a serious candidate. Grover Cleveland 46% and Benjamin Harrison 43% were the real candidates. Weaver giot 8.5% of the vote. While Horace Tabor (he's not in the original UMB) became rich with two silver mines - Johnny Brown never worked for him, and Tabor never switched to gold mining. Johnny worked for a mining conglomerate, and DID invent the safe straw based way of constructing gold mine shafts. Not quite sure why the new version added characters who weren't really involved in Molly and JJ's story. And on and on .... |
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