Marching Men
| Title | Marching Men |
| Year of Publication | 1917 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 314 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Anderson, Sherwood |
| Publisher | John Lane Company |
| City | New York |
| Keywords | coal industry; immigrants; labor strikes; trade unions; United Mine Workers |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Author Biography | 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. |
| Time | 1893-1910s |
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