TY - SER
KW - Pennsylvania oil rush
KW - Railroad Strike of 1877
KW - Allan Pinkerton (1819-84)
KW - Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919)
KW - immigrants
KW - Edwin Drake (1819-80)
KW - Great Fire of Pittsburgh of 1845
KW - Pressed Car Steel Strike of 1909
KW - William Sylvis (1828-69)
KW - Mother Jones (1837-1930)
KW - Pittsburgh Cotton Girls Strike of 1845
KW - Homestead Steel Strike of 1892
AU - Bill Yund
AB - The protagonist, born Jacques Perdiquer in Alsace in 1822, joins the “<em>compagnonnage</em>” of coopers, a French brotherhood of barrel-makers, at 16. Jacques then emigrates to Philadelphia in 1842 in order to avoid seven years of French military service. Here he takes on an American name, Jack Cooper. The Philadelphia Nativist Riots of that year chase Cooper west to Allegheny City where his trade connects him to nearly every major event in Pittsburgh labor history: the Great Pittsburgh Fire of 1845; Cotton Girls Strike of 1845; Pennsylvania Oil Rush; Railroad Strike of 1877; Homestead Strike of 1892; and the 1909 Pressed Car Strike.
C1 - 1840s-1900s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; North Side; Lawrenceville; Homestead; McKees Rocks; Crawford County; Titusville; Venango County; Oil Creek
C4 - Children’s; Young Adult; Immigrant; Historical; Labor
CY - Homestead, PA
LA - English
M3 - Graphic Novel
N1 - <em>Cooper's Walk</em> was partially supported by the Pennsylvania Labor Education Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.<br/>

North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.
N2 - The protagonist, born Jacques Perdiquer in Alsace in 1822, joins the “<em>compagnonnage</em>” of coopers, a French brotherhood of barrel-makers, at 16. Jacques then emigrates to Philadelphia in 1842 in order to avoid seven years of French military service. Here he takes on an American name, Jack Cooper. The Philadelphia Nativist Riots of that year chase Cooper west to Allegheny City where his trade connects him to nearly every major event in Pittsburgh labor history: the Great Pittsburgh Fire of 1845; Cotton Girls Strike of 1845; Pennsylvania Oil Rush; Railroad Strike of 1877; Homestead Strike of 1892; and the 1909 Pressed Car Strike.
PB - Steel Valley Printers
PP - Homestead, PA
PY - 2006
RN - Bill Yund (1942— ), a retired industrial insulator, is a writer and illustrator long involved in labor journalism. Yund lives in the northwest corner of Allegheny County.
EP - 40 p.
TI - Cooper's Walk: An Illustrated Tale of Pennsylvania Labor
ER -