Irish Gandy Dancer
Irish Gandy Dancer

Author: Ryan Michael Collins

Publisher: Createspace Indie Pub Platform

Published: 2010-05-03

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9781452826318

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John McGlinchey, a young Irish transplant from County Donegal finds little opportunity in South Philadelphia during Reconstruction era America. His war time savings nearly depleted, he is determined to find work and joins hundreds of his countrymen in one of the greatest engineering quests of the time, building the Trans-Continental Railroad. McGlinchey provides a first person narrative of the events he encounters that overturn many of his contemporary views of race and religion while at the same time providing an unvarnished view of people great and small that shaped this grand endeavor.

The Lady and the Gandydancer
The Lady and the Gandydancer

Author: Rob Robinson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-07-12

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1304225550

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Sean O'Sullivan, once a roaring twenties playboy, has been forced by his railroad president father to work as a Gandydancer, unskilled workers who use shovel and pick to keep the rail lines straight, a job that begins to have a positive effect, when one night he finds himself rescuing Anne Miller, a spoiled coed abandoned on a mean street in Baltimore by her feckless date when she resists his amorous advances. Sean lets her believe he is a common laborer, and she is charmed by his gentlemanly ways, but unsure that he could ever fit into her upper class life. When Sean meets the saddened sister of one of his fellow workers whose fiancé was lost in the Great War, he, too, is torn, unable to choose between two women who both believe he is merely a Gandydancer.

Seth and Samson Blair
Seth and Samson Blair

Author: John R. Carden

Publisher: PublishAmerica

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1456082140

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Seth and Samson Blair continues the saga of an Old West lawman, Seth Blair. Sam had honorably served in the army; as a cattle drover for Shanghai Pierce, had worked undercover for the Texas Rangers, and finally he had been a United States Marshal. It was while he was serving Los Angeles that an Event happened that was unique in the History of the Cosmic All! From the Old West, Sam was somehow transported though Time to modern-day Los Angeles! Electric lights, automobiles, jet planes, cell phones, and a thousand other sights and sounds were entirely new to his senses! Amid all the new wonders, he had to survive and he had to return to his own Time! But Time can play strange tricks on mortals! Literally anything can happen when a few space aliens, mages, shape shifters, and the fabled Winds of Destiny are added to the mix!

Fury Of The Mountain Man
Fury Of The Mountain Man

Author: William W. Johnstone

Publisher: Pinnacle Books

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0786036966

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Six-Gun Justice. . . Smoke Jensen was the last mountain man and the quickest draw in the West. But he was tired of fighting every punk who wanted to make a reputation for himself, so he hung up his .45s. It Didn't Last Long. . . Like Jensen, the two Mexican gunfighters known as Carbone and Martine had put away their six-guns, married and turned to ranching down in Durango. Then they came up against an army of outlaws under a warlord who called himself Carvajal. That was when they called on Smoke Jensen. Smoke didn't waste a minute. When your friends called, you came running. Carvajal laughed when he heard that Smoke Jensen was on the way. After all, what could one man do?"

The Sackett Brand
The Sackett Brand

Author: Louis L'Amour

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2003-09-30

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0553899716

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In The Sackett Brand, Louis L’Amour spins the story of a courageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down a killer. Tell Sackett and his bride, Ange, came to Arizona to build a home and start a family. But on Black Mesa, something goes terribly wrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally manages to drag himself back to where he left Ange, she is gone. Desperate, cold, hungry, and with nothing to defend himself, Tell is stalked like a wounded animal. While he hides from his attackers, his rage and frustration mount as he tries to figure out who the men are, why they are trying to kill him, and what has happened to his wife. Discovering the truth will be risky. And when he finally does, it will be their turn to run.

Context
Context

Author: Gary Dwyer

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-10-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0980030129

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Criminal Slang
Criminal Slang

Author: Vincent Joseph Monteleone

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1584773006

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A fascinating addition to any criminal law history library or collection, this book will likely be perused often. With a new introduction by Bryan A. Garner, President, LawProse, Inc. [1-2 new introduction], 292 pp. Originally published: Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1949. Monteleone was a police officer with thirty-two years of service throughout the United States. He compiled this collection of words and phrases used by the "gangster, tramp or hobo" over the course of a career that spanned the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Both instructive and amusing, it contains hundreds of entries relating to criminal matters of the time, such as "Academy" (a jail), "Across the River" (dead), "Grease the Track" (to fall under a moving train), "Looseners" (prunes), "Sprinkle the Flowers" (to distribute bribes), "Suey Bowel" (A Chinese opium den), "Write Short Stories" (to forge checks) and "Zib" (an easy victim). Also includes a table of hobo code symbols.

Hell Up North
Hell Up North

Author: Tabor Evans

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780515146073

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More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

Railhead
Railhead

Author: Guy Franks

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2020-07-13

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1663204632

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“In his time, Robert Riordan was called a ‘Lincoln Man’ and a ‘Railroad Man’ but these terms attested more to his politics than to his character. He was a gentleman who clearly saw the line between good and evil...” So writes his biographer Pete Hammond, many years later, as he recollects the man who set out to tame the ‘Hell on Wheels’ town of Goshen, Wyoming. In 1869, Goshen is a wide-open town at war with itself. Gambling halls and brothels are big business yet the town is bankrupt, and murder and graft are common place. Can the young railroad town become a place where law-abiding folks can raise their families, or will it end up a shot up, gambled-out ghost town like Julesburg, ‘The Wickedest City in the West’? The fate of the town rests with one man—‘Butch’ Riordan—and all his grit and savvy may not be enough to check the forces seeking to destroy it. Railhead is an authentically detailed story of the post-Civil War West set against the backdrop of the lawless towns created by the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. Meet the special breed of men and women who civilized the wind-swept plains of Wyoming, along with the man Robert Riordan, who should seem very familiar to the readers of America.