So far my story contains (or will contain) shades of William Randolph Hearst, Julia Cameron - a female architect, the 1918 influenza epidemic, WWI aces, Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, early Hollywood, early jazz, and conditions facing African-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Native Americans and Mexicans. So I think it's time I introduced a Pinkerton detective, don't you?
I didn't know, but there was a female division of the Pinkertons. One of whom was arrested (as a spy I guess) and imprisoned in Richmond, Virginia's Castle Thunder prison.
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Can you believe there was a prison called Castle Thunder? The guards apparently had a reputation for brutality. Well duh!! Call your prison Castle Thunder and I expect you'll attract all manner of melodrama. Including a woman who enlisted in the civil war as a man. Good heavens.
Wiki doesn't say how it got its name, but apparently there was another prison of that name is Petersburg. Virginia was a weird place in the 1800s. Or the state boosters were hoping to make it into an episode of Flash Gordon.
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