TY - SER
KW - German Americans
KW - labor strikes
KW - Welsh Americans
KW - banking industry
KW - trade unions
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Polish Americans
KW - Slavic Americans
KW - Hungarian Americans
KW - British Americans
KW - Swedish Americans
KW - Pinkerton Detective National Agency
KW - iron industry
KW - steel industry
KW - Homestead Steel Strike of 1892
AU - Garet Garrett
AB - A historical and political novel starring John Breakspeare, pioneer of the emerging Pennsylvania steel industry who leads a titanic battle over whether steel or iron will triumph. The primary setting, New Damascus, is a fictitious mill town along the Susquehanna, but the Pittsburgh steel district is visited repeatedly in the novel.
C1 - 1820s-70s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown
C4 - Historical; Labor
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Garet Garrett is a pseudonym of Edward Peter Garrett (1878-1954).
N2 - A historical and political novel starring John Breakspeare, pioneer of the emerging Pennsylvania steel industry who leads a titanic battle over whether steel or iron will triumph. The primary setting, New Damascus, is a fictitious mill town along the Susquehanna, but the Pittsburgh steel district is visited repeatedly in the novel.
PB - E. P. Dutton & Company
PP - New York
PY - 1923
RN - Edward Peter Garrett (1878-1954), born in Illinois and raised in Iowa, was a New York financial journalist and libertarian who is best remembered for his opposition to the New Deal and American involvement in the World Wars. His trilogy of novels on the impact of economic transformations greatly influenced the novels of Ayn Rand. Garrett died at his home in New Jersey.
EP - 357 p.
TI - The Cinder Buggy: A Fable in Iron and Steel
ER -