A Story from Pullmantown
First Edition. Illustrated with sketches by Capel Rowley. Radical novel drawing on the contemporary events of the Great Pullman Strike of 1894, set in the fictional “Pullmantown,” clearly modeled on the Southside Chicago company-planned community of Pullman. BLAKE p.220
Nico Bech-Meyer.
A Story From Pullmantown.
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1894.
Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10873187
A version of this text has been digitized and is available through the Internet Archive.
If you're interested in learning more about the historical events that inspired this novel, please refer to the links below:
"The Strike of 1984" by the Pullman National Historical Park, Illinois, National Park Service, 29 December 2022.
"The Town of Pullman" by the Pullman National Historical Park, Illinois, National Park Service, 8 January 2023.
"The History of Pullman" by the Historic Pullman Foundation, 2021.
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