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 -