Agnes Canon is tired of being a spectator in life, a small-town schoolmarm and an invisible daughter among seven sisters, meat for the marriage market. The rivers of her Pennsylvania countryside flow west, and she yearns to flow with them, explo...
The business of coal dramatically transforms life in the bucolic Pennsylvania valley Harry Robinson's family has called home for generations. Ambitious industrialists reap huge windfalls and Europe's laborers flock to America's shores to seek their f...