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Book Synopsis The Old Iron Road by : David Haward Bain
Download or read book The Old Iron Road written by David Haward Bain and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of "Empire Express" retraces the route of the first transcontinental railroad.
Book Synopsis The Old Iron Road by : David Haward Bain
Download or read book The Old Iron Road written by David Haward Bain and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2000 David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America’s past. Spiritually, their journey began on a Kansas trail where the author’s grandmother was born in a covered wagon in 1889. Between the Missouri River and the Golden Gate, they retraced the entire route of the first transcontinental railroad and large stretches of the Oregon and California trails, and the equally colorful old Lincoln Highway. Following vanished iron rails and wagon wheel ruts, bumping down backroads and main streets, they discovered the deep, restless, uniquely American spirit of adventure that connects our past to our present. A superb writer and an exacting researcher, Bain conjures up a marvelous sense of coming unstuck in time as he lingers in the ghost towns and battlegrounds, prairies and river ports, trainyards, museums, deserts, and diners that line his cruise west to California. Bain encounters a fascinating cast of characters, both historic and contemporary, as well as memories of his grandparents and the journeys that shaped his own heritage. Writing in the tradition of William Least Heat-Moon and Ian Frazier, and with an engaging warmth and a deep grasp of history all his own, Bain has fashioned a quintessentially American journey.
Book Synopsis Old Iron Road by : David Howard Bain
Download or read book Old Iron Road written by David Howard Bain and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2000, award-winning author David Bain and his family headed west in search of America¿s past. Between the Missouri River and the Golden Gate Bridge, they retraced the entire route of the first transcontinental railroad and stretches of the Oregon and California trails. Following vanished iron rails and wagon wheel ruts, bumping down back roads and main streets, they discovered the deep, restless, uniquely American spirit of adventure that connects our past to our present. Along the way, Bain encounters a fascinating cast of characters, both historic and contemporary -- from Mark Twain and Willa Cather to Henry Fonda and Marlon Brando, including his own grandparents. ¿Bain has fashioned a quintessentially American journey.¿ Illustrations.
Book Synopsis Tales of the Iron Road by : Maury Graham
Download or read book Tales of the Iron Road written by Maury Graham and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The iron roads dictionary and travellers route charts of the English and Welsh railways by : sir John Richard Somers Vine
Download or read book The iron roads dictionary and travellers route charts of the English and Welsh railways written by sir John Richard Somers Vine and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Iron Road written by Christian Wolmar and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey through the history of railways From the early steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, The Iron Road tells the hidden stories of railway history- the inspired engineering, blood, sweat and tears that went into the construction of the railways. Uncover the compelling tales of bold vision, invention and error, and social change behind the history of trains and railways, with famous railways such as the Transsiberian fully explored. Learn how the great railway pioneers such as George Stephenson produced the ideas and feats of engineering that created the railways and changed the world. Each exciting moment of railway history is captured, contextualised and enhanced by superb illustrations. Trains and railways of the past like the romantic Orient Express are brought to life through amazing eyewitness accounts, allowing you to see the railways through the eyes of people who were there at the time. Written by Christian Wolmar, an award-winning writer and broadcaster, The Iron Road is an exciting trip through the history of trains for any railway enthusiast.
Download or read book The Iron Road written by Anthony Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850: 1872-1877 by : James Ford Rhodes
Download or read book History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850: 1872-1877 written by James Ford Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Iron Road written by Leonard Lonergan and published by New York : The Smith. This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales of the iron road by : John Richard Hind
Download or read book Tales of the iron road written by John Richard Hind and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ghosts of Gold Mountain by : Gordon H. Chang
Download or read book Ghosts of Gold Mountain written by Gordon H. Chang and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.
Download or read book The Iron Road Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Welcome to the Iron Road by : W. R. Williams
Download or read book Welcome to the Iron Road written by W. R. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Iron Road to Social Security by : Alec L. Parrott
Download or read book The Iron Road to Social Security written by Alec L. Parrott and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the historical development of social security in the UK - discusses the evolution of various forms of social assistance (the Poor Laws), marine insurance, provident funds, beginning of state intervention (1848); recounts the establishment of the dual social insurance and social assistance scheme in 1948 and the ratification of ILO Convention No. 102; reviews adoption of the scheme in India, Asia, Africa, as well as national level attitudes and international perspectives. References, statistical tables.
Book Synopsis The Broken Road by : Patrick Leigh Fermor
Download or read book The Broken Road written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts the last leg of his epic walk across Europe as he makes his way through Bulgaria, Romania, and finally Greece. In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him almost a year. Decades later, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, two books now celebrated as among the most vivid, absorbing, and beautifully written travel books of all time. The Broken Road is the long-awaited account of the final leg of his youthful adventure that Leigh Fermor promised but was unable to finish before his death in 2011. Assembled from Leigh Fermor’s manuscripts by his prizewinning biographer Artemis Cooper and the travel writer Colin Thubron, this is perhaps the most personal of all Leigh Fermor’s books, catching up with young Paddy in the fall of 1934 and following him through Bulgaria and Romania to the coast of the Black Sea. Days and nights on the road, spectacular landscapes and uncanny cities, friendships lost and found, leading the high life in Bucharest or camping out with fishermen and shepherds–in the The Broken Road such incidents and escapades are described with all the linguistic bravura, odd and astonishing learning, and overflowing exuberance that Leigh Fermor is famous for, but also with a melancholy awareness of the passage of time, especially when he meditates on the scarred history of the Balkans or on his troubled relations with his father. The book ends, perfectly, with Paddy’s arrival in Greece, the country he would fall in love with and fight for. Throughout it we can still hear the ringing voice of an irrepressible young man embarking on a life of adventure.
Book Synopsis Iron Road to Empire by : William Edward Hayes
Download or read book Iron Road to Empire written by William Edward Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tioga Railroad Company, Plaintiff in Error, Vs. the Blossburg and Corning Railroad Company by : Tioga Railroad Company
Download or read book The Tioga Railroad Company, Plaintiff in Error, Vs. the Blossburg and Corning Railroad Company written by Tioga Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
