The Railroad Dick
Author: Michael Richard Walsh
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781413422207
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Author: Michael Richard Walsh
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781413422207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dick Kreck
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1555919529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOvernight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West.
Author: Fairman R. Dick
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Published: 1944
Total Pages: 8
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 1110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. B. Lawson
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 31
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Special Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and Reorganization
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 1382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: China Miéville
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0345524543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Other names besides [Herman] Melville’s will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling tale—there’s Dune’s Frank Herbert. . . . But in this, as in all of his works, Miéville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own.”—Los Angeles Times On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death & the other’s glory. Spectacular as it is, Sham can’t shake the sense that there is more to life than the endless rails of the railsea—even if his captain thinks only of hunting the ivory-colored mole that took her arm years ago. But when they come across a wrecked train, Sham finds something—a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible—that leads to considerably more than he’d bargained for. Soon he’s hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters & salvage-scrabblers. & it might not be just Sham’s life that’s about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[Miéville] gives all readers a lot to dig into here, be it emotional drama, Godzilla-esque monster carnage, or the high adventure that comes only with riding the rails.”—USA Today “Superb . . . massively imaginative.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Riveting . . . a great adventure.”—NPR “Wildly inventive . . . Every sentence is packed with wit.”—The Guardian (London)
Author: Grant Burns
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-01-28
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1476606986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNothing better represented the early spirit of American expansion than the railroad. Dominant in daily life as well as in the popular imagination, the railroad appealed strongly to creative writers. For many years, fiction of railroad life and travel was plentiful and varied. As the nineteenth century receded, the railroad's allure faded, as did railroad fiction. Today, it is hard to sense what the railroad once meant to Americans. The fiction of the railroad--often by railroaders themselves--recaptures that sense, and provides valuable insights on American cultural history. This extensively annotated bibliography lists and discusses in 956 entries novels and short stories from the 1840s to the present in which the railroad is important. Each entry includes plot and character description to help the reader make an informed decision on the source's merit. A detailed introduction discusses the history of railroad fiction and highlights common themes such as strikes, hoboes, and the roles of women and African-Americans. Such writers of "pure" railroad fiction as Harry Bedwell, Frank Packard, and Cy Warman are well represented, along with such literary artists as Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, and Ellen Glasgow. Work by minority writers, including Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, Frank Chin, and Toni Morrison, also receives close attention. An appendix organizes entries by decade of publication, and the work is indexed by subject and title.
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 430
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