Review of \u3ci\u3eA Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America\u3c/i\u3e By Shelton Stromquist

Stromquist concentrates on the western railroads, where labor conflict was most acute, saying little about eastern and southern lines. He perceptively treats the sometimes overlooked role of the railroads in promoting western settlement and in establishing a string of railroad towns to service trains. Carefully researched and persuasively argued, this volume would be of value to readers interested in railroad labor history, the settlement of the west, or the growth of industrial America