TY - SER
KW - railroad industry
KW - Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919)
KW - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
KW - trade unions
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Polish Americans
KW - Slavic Americans
KW - Ukrainian Americans
KW - Hungarian Americans
KW - Pressed Car Steel Strike of 1909
KW - William Trautmann (1869-1940)
KW - Lillian Russell (1860/1-1922)
KW - Diamond Jim Brady (1856-1917)
KW - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
KW - Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
KW - Pressed Steel Car Company
KW - steel industry
KW - police
KW - Black Americans
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Lester Goran
AB - Roxanne, a tough West Virginia gal, comes north to boomtown Pittsburgh and quickly gets involved with local characters like Diamond Jim Brady, Lillian Russell, William Trautmann and with the infamous Pressed Car Steel Strike in McKees Rocks.
C1 - 1909
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Frank & Seder department store; Union Station; Oakland; Syria Mosque; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Carnegie Museum; University of Pittsburgh; Cathedral of Learning;
C4 - Historical; Literary; Labor; Women’s
CY - Far Hills, NJ
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Union Station is referred to as Penn Station, as it is commonly known.
N2 - Roxanne, a tough West Virginia gal, comes north to boomtown Pittsburgh and quickly gets involved with local characters like Diamond Jim Brady, Lillian Russell, William Trautmann and with the infamous Pressed Car Steel Strike in McKees Rocks.
PB - New Horizon Press
PP - Far Hills, NJ
PY - 1985
RN - Lester Goran (1928-2014), born and raised in a housing project in Pittsburgh's Hill District, was a novelist and professor of English at the University of Miami. He attended Pittsburgh's Fifth Avenue High School and Schenley High School and he earned a BA and MA in English at the University of Pittsburgh. For more than 50 years he wrote fiction set in Pittsburgh. He lived in Miami, Florida.
EP - 239 p.
TI - Mrs. Beautiful
ER -