TY - SER KW - Pennsylvania Railroad KW - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad KW - Railroad Strike of 1877 KW - railroad industry KW - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) KW - labor strikes KW - immigrants KW - trade unions KW - Irish Americans KW - cotton industry KW - iron industry KW - steel industry KW - police KW - coal industry AU - Jill Gregory AB - “Boone Walker, son of a poor Kentucky farmer, moves to Pittsburgh, where he begins to make his fortune in steel,” says Publishers Weekly. “Elly Forrest escapes the poverty of a [Western] Pennsylvania mining town to start a new life in Chicago.” The two cross paths and fall in love. C1 - 1860s-80s C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; North Side; Fayette County; Connellsville C4 - Romance; Historical CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N1 - North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known. N2 - “Boone Walker, son of a poor Kentucky farmer, moves to Pittsburgh, where he begins to make his fortune in steel,” says Publishers Weekly. “Elly Forrest escapes the poverty of a [Western] Pennsylvania mining town to start a new life in Chicago.” The two cross paths and fall in love. PB - Jove Books PP - New York PY - 1987 RN - Jill Gregory (1950—) has written more than 30 historical and contemporary romance novels. Raised in Chicago, she earned a BA in English at the University of Illinois and now lives in Michigan. EP - 425 p. TI - Looking Glass Years ER -