Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beginnings in wilderness: the colonial era to 1840
  • Allegheny's early boom: the 1840s to the Civil War
  • Conflict and newfound prosperity: Allegheny in the Civil War
  • The boom continues: the Civil War to 1877
  • The heyday of the middle class: 1877-1890
  • The city of millionaires: Allegheny's elite, 1890-1910
  • Annexation: 1907
  • Middle-class and working-class Allegheny: 1890-1910
  • Maturity and stability: 1910-1930
  • The Great Depression and World War: 1930-1950
  • Decline and rejuvenation: 1950 to the present
  • Afterword.