Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about them over a hundred years ago. The Valley of Fear. The hero, a young Pinkerton agent, arrived from Chicago saying on the train before he set foot on the VV land, when asked if he has any friends said: no, but I have the means of making them. I am a member of The Order of Freeman, and every town across the land has a lodge, and there I will find my friends.