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Arthur Gordon Burgoyne
1860–1914
A Pittsburgh journalist with a sharp eye for local character, he turned the people and labor battles of his city into vivid, accessible writing. His best-known work on the 1892 Homestead strike remains a window into one of the most important labor conflicts in American history.
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About the author
Arthur Gordon Burgoyne was an American journalist and author associated with Pittsburgh in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contemporary accounts described him as a journalist, poet, humorist, and lecturer, and his writing often drew on the life of the city around him.
He is best remembered for Homestead, his detailed account of the 1892 struggle between the Carnegie Steel Company and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. He also wrote All Sorts of Pittsburgers and published volumes of verse, showing a range that moved from reporting and local history to lighter, more literary work.
Burgoyne died in 1914 after a brief illness. While he is not widely known today, his books preserve a lively picture of Pittsburgh and its people at a time of enormous industrial change.