Darkness Visible: A Novel of the Homestead Strike of 1892

by Trilby Busch

Darkness Visible imaginatively recreates a defining moment in American labor the battle between strikers and company-hired Pinkerton guards in Homestead, Pennsylvania, on July 6, 1892. Disowned by his minister father, university student Emlyn Phillips forsakes the bleak coalfields of South Wales to make a fresh start. Aided by his brother-in-law Gwyn Jones, he finds a job in the Homestead Works of Carnegie Steel. As Emlyn struggles to find a niche in the New World, he must wrestle with the demons that drove him from the Old.

520 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 22, 2012

About the author

Trilby Busch was born and raised in the Steel Valley of Homestead, Pennsylvania. Her paternal great-grandfather was killed in the Homestead Works in the immediate aftermath of the 1892 strike. She served on the Board of Contributors to the Opinion Page of the Minneapolis Star, writing about historical preservation and folklore. A longtime resident of Minneapolis, she is retired from teaching college composition and literature.