TY - SER
KW - Scots-Irish Americans
KW - labor strikes
KW - immigrants
KW - World War I
KW - trade unions
KW - Irish Americans
KW - World War II
KW - Panic of 1873
KW - capitalists
KW - service industry
KW - Czechoslovak Americans
KW - Johnstown Flood of 1889
KW - Scottish Americans
KW - iron industry
KW - steel industry
AU - Marcia Davenport
AB - Chronicles four generations of the Scott family—owners and operators of a competitive iron and steel company—from the economic panic of 1873 through the rise of American industry and trade unionism, waves of immigration, class conflict, natural disasters, and two World Wars. Mary Rafferty, the family's long-serving and trusted Irish maid, is a central character.
C1 - 1870s-1940s
C3 - Allegheny County; Ohio River; Monongahela River; Allegheny River; Pittsburgh; Oakland; Downtown; North Side
C4 - Saga; Historical; Women’s; Labor; Psychological; Romance; Immigrant
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - This novel was a national bestseller.

North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.
N2 - Chronicles four generations of the Scott family—owners and operators of a competitive iron and steel company—from the economic panic of 1873 through the rise of American industry and trade unionism, waves of immigration, class conflict, natural disasters, and two World Wars. Mary Rafferty, the family's long-serving and trusted Irish maid, is a central character.
PB - Charles Scribner's Sons
PP - New York
PY - 1942
RN - Marcia Davenport (1903-96), born to an opera singer and prominent violinist in New York City, was a writer and music critic. She eloped to Pittsburgh in 1923 to marry her first husband Frank Clarke. After university studies in France, she re-married Russell Davenport, a New York publisher, and became closely involved with the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia Jan Masaryk. She died in Monterey, California.
EP - 640 p.
TI - The Valley of Decision
ER -