TY - SER KW - labor strikes KW - immigrants KW - trade unions KW - United Mine Workers KW - coal industry AU - Sherwood Anderson AB - Set in Coal Creek, a fictitious Western Pennsylvania minor town. Norman “Beaut” McGregor is 14 as the story begins, and after his disillusionment with the lack of power among the miners in his hometown, he hops a train to Chicago and comes of age there, politicizing himself. When McGregor returns home for his mother's funeral, the miners honor her by dramatically marching in step. McGregor takes this militaristic scene of “marching men” back to Chicago and applies it to union organizing. C1 - 1893-1910s C3 - Western Pennsylvania C4 - Literary; Labor CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - Set in Coal Creek, a fictitious Western Pennsylvania minor town. Norman “Beaut” McGregor is 14 as the story begins, and after his disillusionment with the lack of power among the miners in his hometown, he hops a train to Chicago and comes of age there, politicizing himself. When McGregor returns home for his mother's funeral, the miners honor her by dramatically marching in step. McGregor takes this militaristic scene of “marching men” back to Chicago and applies it to union organizing. PB - John Lane Company PP - New York PY - 1917 RN - Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in Ohio and spent most of his life there and in Chicago. The scholar Ray Lewis White suggests, in his critical edition of Marching Men, that the novel's coal town setting was inspired by Anderson's 1895 hobo trip from Ohio to Western Pennsylvania. EP - 314 p. TI - Marching Men ER -