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Last Ride of the Iron Horse

Author : Dan Joseph
Publisher : Sunbury Press
ISBN 13 : 9781620062326
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Last Ride of the Iron Horse written by Dan Joseph and published by Sunbury Press. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Ride of the Iron Horse tells the tale of Lou Gehrig's final year in the Yankee lineup, as he dealt with early effects of the paralytic disease ALS. For much of the 1938 season, the legendary Gehrig -- dubbed the Iron Horse for his strength and reliability -- struggled with slumps and a mystifying loss of power that shook his confidence. Fans booed and sportswriters called for him to be benched. Then, as the Yankees battled for the pennant in August, Lou began pounding home runs like his old self -- a turnaround that in retrospect looks truly miraculous. It may have been a rare case of temporary ALS reversal. Using hard-to-find film footage, radio broadcasts, newspapers and interviews, author Dan Joseph chronicles Gehrig's roller coaster of a year. It began in Hollywood, where the handsome "Larrupin' Lou" filmed a Western that turned out to be his only movie. In subsequent months, he signed for baseball's highest salary, battled injuries that would have sidelined a lesser man, won his sixth World Series ring, and entered the political arena for the first time, denouncing the rising threat of Nazism. Joseph also seeks to answer questions that have long intrigued Gehrig's admirers: when did he sense something was wrong with his body? What were the first signs? How did he adjust? And did he still help the Yankees win the championship, even as his skills declined? 1938 turned out to be Gehrig's final hurrah. With his strength and reflexes fading, he ended his renowned consecutive games streak at 2,130 the following May. A few weeks later, doctors at the Mayo Clinic diagnosed him with ALS. On July 4th, the Yankees retired his number in a ceremony at Yankee Stadium. All along, Gehrig showed remarkable courage and grace, never more so than when he told the stadium crowd, "I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for."

The Last Ride of the Pony Express

Author : Will Grant
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316422304
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Last Ride of the Pony Express written by Will Grant and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spellbinding" (Douglas Preston) and "completely fascinating" (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime. The Last Ride of the Pony Express boldly illuminates both our mythic fascination with the Pony Express, and how its spirit continues to this day. The Pony Express was a fast-horse frontier mail service that spanned the American West— the high, dry, and undeniably lonesome part of North America. While in operation during the 1860s, it carried letter mail on a blistering ten-day schedule between Missouri and San Francisco, running through a vast and mostly uninhabited wilderness. It covered a massive distance—akin to running horses between Madrid and Moscow— and to this day, the Pony Express is irrefutably the greatest display of American horsemanship to ever color the pages of a history book. Though the Pony Express has enjoyed a lot of traction over the years, among the authors that have attempted to encapsulate it, none have ever ridden it themselves. While most scholars would look for answers inside a library, Will Grant looks for his between the ears of a horse. Inspired by the likes of Mark Twain, Sir Richard Burton, and Horace Greeley, all of whom traveled throughout the developing West, Will Grant returned to his roots: he would ride the trail himself with his two horses, Chicken Fry and Badger, from one end to the other. Will Grant captures the spirit of the west in a way that few writers have. Along with rich encounters with the ranchers, farmers, historians, and businessmen who populate the trail, his exploits on horseback offer an intimate portrait of how the West has evolved from the rough and tumble 19th century to the present, and it’s written with such intimacy that you’ll feel as though you’re riding right alongside of him. Along the way, he fights off wild mustangs wanting to steal his horses in Utah, camps with Peruvian sheepherders in the mountains, and even spends three days riding under the Top Gun aviator school in Nevada, which are just a handful of extraordinary tales Will Grant unveils as he makes his way across the treacherous and, at times, thrilling landscape of the known and unknown American West. The Last Ride of the Pony Express is a uniquely tenacious tale of adventure by a native son of the West who defies most modern conveniences to compass some two thousand miles on horseback. The result is an unforgettable narrative that will forever change how you see the West, the Pony Express, and America as a whole.

The Last Ride

Author : Susan K. Marlow
Publisher : Kregel Publications
ISBN 13 : 0825443695
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Last Ride written by Susan K. Marlow and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ride the Iron Horse

Author : Marjorie Darke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780722660300
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Ride the Iron Horse written by Marjorie Darke and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Iron Horse Cowgirls

Author : Linda Back McKay
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476669465
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Iron Horse Cowgirls written by Linda Back McKay and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Louise Scherbyn founded the Women's International Motorcycle Association, she was simply a working girl who loved motorcycling--at a time when women weren't allowed to wear pants, roads weren't hard-topped, and handlebars could come apart while riding. The hardest part? Auxiliaries she looked to for support each proved to be the wrong fit--some uncomfortably, disastrously so. All Louise wanted was for women riders to have a proper space of their own. For that she would ultimately have to forge a new path. This book tells the fascinating story of Scherbyn's journey in forming the first stand-alone women-only motorcycle association. Chapters cover 225,000 miles and two decades' worth of community-building, hostilities, physical and professional attacks, recovery, sisterhood and more. Scherbyn paved the way for women motorcyclists across the world while facing a storm of threats and uncertainties, driving ahead with newfound friends and her singular, unifying vision for women who ride.

Last Ride of the Headhunter

Author : Jack Mambo
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291464085
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Last Ride of the Headhunter written by Jack Mambo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-22 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the apocalyptic aftermath of the war to end all wars, the world has all but been reduced to vast stretches of nuclear wastelands ruled by terrifying mutants and savage packs of roaming marauders. the only form of order left in the new world is preserved by the empire, the last civilized alliance of mankind, that willingly destroys any and all possible threats to its establishment. But when empire forces one day storm into the small borderland settlement of Hogtown slaughtering all the inhabitants and totally annihilating the place without any clear explanation or logical reasoning, the man known as The Headhunter, & the last remaining resident of Hogtown, embarks on a deadly mission to the empire capital in search of answer and revenge with horrifying consequences...

Lou Gehrig

Author : Alan D. Gaff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982132418
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Lou Gehrig written by Alan D. Gaff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lost memoir from Lou Gehrig—“a compelling rumination by a baseball icon and a tragic hero” (Sports Illustrated) and “a fitting tribute to an inspiring baseball legend” (Publishers Weekly). At the tender age of twenty-four, Lou Gehrig decided to tell the remarkable story of his life and career. He was one of the most famous athletes in the country, in the midst of a record-breaking season with the legendary 1927 World Series–winning Yankees. In an effort to grow Lou’s star, pioneering sports agent Christy Walsh arranged for Lou’s tale of baseball greatness to syndicate in newspapers across the country. Those columns were largely forgotten and lost to history—until now. Lou comes alive in this “must-read” (Tyler Kepner, The New York Times) memoir. It is an inspiring, heartfelt rags-to-riches tale about a poor kid from New York who became one of the most revered baseball players of all time. Fourteen years after his account, Lou would tragically die from ALS, a neuromuscular disorder now known as Lou Gherig’s Disease. His poignant autobiography is followed by an insightful biographical essay by historian Alan D. Gaff. Here is Lou—Hall of Famer, All Star, MVP, an “athlete who epitomized the American dream” (Christian Science Monitor)—back at bat.

Yankee Stories Untold

Author : Rich Marazzi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476693803
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Yankee Stories Untold written by Rich Marazzi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich Marazzi has experienced Yankee history and its culture first-hand as a fan, a writer for Yankees Magazine, a radio talk show host, umpire in the Old Timer's Day game for 16 years, a writer for Mel Allen, the long-time voice of the Yankees, and currently as a baseball rules consultant who was hired by general manager Brian Cashman in 2004. He was also trained by Bob Sheppard as a back-up to the legendary Yankee Stadium public address announcer. In this book Marazzi takes the reader inside Yankee baseball by covering life in the press box, the dugout, the clubhouse, the umpire's room and more. He compiles untold Yankee stories culled from interviews of many of the Yankee greats over the last seven decades including Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Don Mattingly, Derek Jeter and more.

The Grandest Stage

Author : Tyler Kepner
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0593081889
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Grandest Stage written by Tyler Kepner and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches comes the ultimate history of the World Series—a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, filled with humor, lore, analysis, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years of the Fall Classic. The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American team sports. It’s the place where legends are made, where celebration and devastation can hinge on a fly ball off a foul pole or a grounder beneath a first baseman’s glove. And there’s no one better to bring this rich history to life than New York Times national baseball columnist Tyler Kepner, whose bestselling book about pitching, K, was lauded as “Michelangelo explaining the brush strokes on the Sistine Chapel” by Newsday. In seven scintillating chapters, Kepner delivers an indelible portrait of baseball’s signature event. He digs deep for essential tales dating back to the beginning in 1903, adding insights from Hall of Famers like Reggie Jackson, Mike Schmidt, Jim Palmer, Dennis Eckersley and many others who have thrived – and failed – when it mattered most. Why do some players, like Madison Bumgarner, Derek Jeter and David Ortiz, crave the pressure? How do players handle a dream that comes up short? What’s it like to manage in the World Series, and what are the secrets of building a champion? Kepner celebrates unexpected heroes like Bill Wambsganss, who pulled off an unassisted triple play in 1920, probes the mysteries behind magic moments (Did Babe Ruth call his shot in 1932? How could Eckersley walk Mike Davis to get to Kirk Gibson in 1988?) and busts some long-time myths (the 1919 Reds were much better than the Black Sox, anyway). The Grandest Stage is the ultimate history of the World Series, the perfect gift for all the fans who feel their hearts pounding in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game Seven.

Rez Rules

Author : Chief Clarence Louie
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771048343
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Rez Rules written by Chief Clarence Louie and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common-sense blueprint for what the future of First Nations should look like as told through the fascinating life and legacy of a remarkable leader. In 1984, at the age of twenty-four, Clarence Louie was elected Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band in the Okanagan Valley. Nineteen elections later, Chief Louie has led his community for nearly four decades. The story of how the Osoyoos Indian Band—“The Miracle in the Desert”—transformed from a Rez that once struggled with poverty into an economically independent people is well-known. Guided by his years growing up on the Rez, Chief Louie believes that economic and business independence are key to self-sufficiency, reconciliation, and justice for First Nations people. In Rez Rules, Chief Louie writes about his youth in Osoyoos, from early mornings working in the vineyards, to playing and coaching sports, and attending a largely white school in Oliver, B.C. He remembers enrolling in the “Native American Studies” program at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in 1979 and falling in love with First Nations history. Learning about the historic significance of treaties was life-changing. He recalls his first involvement in activism: participating in a treaty bundle run across the country before embarking on a path of leadership. He and his band have worked hard to achieve economic growth and record levels of employment. Inspired by his ancestors’ working culture, and by the young people on the reserve, Chief Louie continues to work for First Nations’ self-sufficiency and independence. Direct and passionate, Chief Louie brings together wide-ranging subjects: life on the Rez, including Rez language and humour; per capita payments; the role of elected chiefs; the devastating impact of residential schools; the need to look to culture and ceremony for governance and guidance; the use of Indigenous names and logos by professional sports teams; his love for motorcycle honour rides; and what makes a good leader. He takes aim at systemic racism and examines the relationship between First Nations and colonial Canada and the United States, and sounds a call to action for First Nations to “Indian Up!” and “never forget our past.” Offering leadership lessons on and off the Rez, this memoir describes the fascinating life and legacy of a remarkable leader and provides a common-sense blueprint for the future of First Nations communities. In it, Chief Louie writes, “Damn, I’m lucky to be an Indian!”

The Children's Hour

Author : T. S. Arthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Children's Hour written by T. S. Arthur and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ride of Her Life

Author : Elizabeth Letts
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0525619321
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Ride of Her Life written by Elizabeth Letts and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion “The gift Elizabeth Letts has is that she makes you feel you are the one taking this trip. This is a book we can enjoy always but especially need now.”—Elizabeth Berg, author of The Story of Arthur Truluv In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She ignored her doctor’s advice to move into the county charity home. Instead, she bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men’s dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. Annie had little idea what to expect beyond her rural crossroads; she didn’t even have a map. But she did have her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness. Annie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, rode straight into a world transformed by the rapid construction of modern highways. Between 1954 and 1956, the three travelers pushed through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by them at terrifying speeds. Annie rode more than four thousand miles, through America’s big cities and small towns. Along the way, she met ordinary people and celebrities—from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers—a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher. In a decade when car ownership nearly tripled, when television’s influence was expanding fast, when homeowners began locking their doors, Annie and her four-footed companions inspired an outpouring of neighborliness in a rapidly changing world.

Iron Horse

Author : Ballantyne, R. M.
Publisher : Delmarva Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Horse written by Ballantyne, R. M. and published by Delmarva Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1871 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is illustrated. This book contains a story founded largely on facts, and is intended to illustrate some of the more salient points and interesting circumstances connected with the railway system of this kingdom. It makes no pretension whatever to give a comprehensive, much less a complete, view of a subject which, in its details, I conceive to be almost inexhaustible. To the various managers, superintendents, clerks, drivers, guards, and porters of the several railway companies from whom much of my information has been derived, I now tender my most sincere thanks for the kindness and ready assistance I have received at their hands. Edinburgh, 1871. R. M. BALLANTYNE.

The Iron Horse

Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Iron Horse written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Iron Horse

Author : R.M Ballantyne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752315369
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Iron Horse written by R.M Ballantyne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Iron Horse by R.M Ballantyne

The Iron Horse

Author : Dawn Erin
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1463435622
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book The Iron Horse written by Dawn Erin and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron Horse is a vivid and darkly comic tale about a girl growing up in gritty working-class New England. Horse-crazy Sunny Quinn spends her childhood toiling long hours in relentless pursuit of entry into the elite world of competitive Saddleseat Equitation. Her weight, her lack of money, her crushing shyness and her tyrannical stepfather all contribute to Sunnys spectacular failure, with harrowing and far-reaching consequences. The story takes the reader on a wild ride through the depths of addiction, crime, sacrifice and suffering set against the backdrop of scorching first love. Filled with memorable characters and encompassing the timely themes of determination and endurance, The Iron Horse is ultimately a story about the lies we tell ourselves, and the twisted road to redemption.

The Last Ride

Author : J. R. Roberts
Publisher : Jove
ISBN 13 : 9780515139570
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Last Ride written by J. R. Roberts and published by Jove. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hired to escort David Trask and John Redwater, two deranged and dangerous killers, to jail in Tombstone, the Gunsmith soon discovers that the deadly duo still have some sneaky tricks up their sleeves.