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Download or read book The White Cascade written by Gary Krist and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped—but nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved minute by minute: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned without escape, their railcars gradually being buried in the rising drifts. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men—led by the line's legendarily courageous superintendent, James O'Neill—worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains. But the storm was unrelenting, and to the passenger's great anxiety, the railcars—their only shelter—were parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. As the days passed, food and coal supplies dwindled. Panic and rage set in as snow accumulated deeper and deeper on the cliffs overhanging the trains. Finally, just when escape seemed possible, the unthinkable occurred: the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche tumbled from the high pinnacles, sweeping the trains and their sleeping passengers over the steep slope and down the mountainside. Centered on the astonishing spectacle of our nation's deadliest avalanche, Gary Krist's The White Cascade is the masterfully told story of a supremely dramatic and never-before-documented American tragedy. An adventure saga filled with colorful and engaging history, this is epic narrative storytelling at its finest.
Download or read book The White Pass written by Roy Minter and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the thousands they came, the gold-seekers of 1897, pouring through Alaska's White and Chilkoot passes on their way to the Klondike and to fortune. Fast behind them came the entrepreneurs, the bunco artists, and before long, the engineers and financiers whose driving ambition was to build a railway through the White Pass's rocky precipices. This is the epic northern adventure of the men who rushed for gold, the workers who toiled in winter storms and thaw-time muck, carving the grade and laying rail, and the ingenious characters who dreamed, schemed, promoted, and finally built the White Pass and Yukon Railway.
Book Synopsis Rails of the World by : Sidney Dillon Ripley
Download or read book Rails of the World written by Sidney Dillon Ripley and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1977 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Official Railway Equipment Register by :
Download or read book The Official Railway Equipment Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cocaine written by Dominic Streatfeild and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-26 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of cocaine from its first medical uses to the worldwide issues it presents today.
Book Synopsis Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court by :
Download or read book Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : Colson Whitehead
Download or read book The Underground Railroad written by Colson Whitehead and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of New-York, and of the Tabulations and Deductions from the Reports of the Railroad Corporations, Made to the Board, for the Year Ending ... by : New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners
Download or read book Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of New-York, and of the Tabulations and Deductions from the Reports of the Railroad Corporations, Made to the Board, for the Year Ending ... written by New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents by :
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Interstate Commerce Commission Reports by : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Download or read book Interstate Commerce Commission Reports written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Labor in the South by : F. Ray Marshall
Download or read book Labor in the South written by F. Ray Marshall and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of factors influencing the growth of trade unions in Southern states of the USA - covers historical aspects, Black employees attitude to unions and the attitude of poverty-stricken whites thereto, economic recession, stimulation of the economy and emergence of the region as a developing area in world war 2, industrial development, labour relations, strikes, union membership, the occupational structure, collective bargaining, etc. References and statistical tables.
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Book Synopsis Railroad Retirement by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Download or read book Railroad Retirement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Nation of Immigrants by : Franca Iacovetta
Download or read book A Nation of Immigrants written by Franca Iacovetta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field. The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as migration strategies and Canadian experiences, their work and family worlds, and their political, cultural, and community lives. They explore the public display of ethno-religious rituals, race riots, and union protests; the quasi-private worlds of all-male boarding-houses and of female domestics toiling in isolated workplaces; and the intrusive power that government and even well-intentioned social reformers have wielded over immigrants deemed dangerous or otherwise in need of supervision. Organized partly chronologically and largely by theme, the topical sections will offer students a glimpse into Canada's complex immigrant past. In order to facilitate classroom discussion, each section contains an introduction that contextualizes the readings and raises some questions for debate. A Nation of Immigrants will be useful both in specialized courses in Canadian immigration history and in courses on broader themes in Canadian history.
Book Synopsis A Beginner's Guide to Rag Quilting by : Christine Mann
Download or read book A Beginner's Guide to Rag Quilting written by Christine Mann and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've always wanted to try quilting, and now it's easier than ever! In A Beginner's Guide to Rag Quilting, longtime quilter and bestselling author Christine Mann makes it easy to master the beginning principles of rag quilting with 12 easy starter projects. Packed with full-color photographs and tons of creative inspiration, every detail of the book from the step-by-step photographed instructions to the lay-flat spiral binding is designed specifically with the beginning quilter in mind. Readers will also find a brief history of quilting and helpful guides on cutting and coordinating colors, plus delightful extras like pillow patterns and quick-reference guides in the back pocket of the book. Even better, each book comes with a pack of 4 quilt labels and needles so you can proudly stitch your very own labels onto your first creations!
Book Synopsis In the Kingdom of Coal by : Dan Rottenberg
Download or read book In the Kingdom of Coal written by Dan Rottenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. This volume charts the history of anthracite coal mining industry and developments around the Josiah White rolling mill in Philadelphia, the Lehigh Coal Mining Company created in 1972 in Pennsylvania, Canal and railroad developments, John Leisenring and Sharpe, Leisenring and Co; and Westmoreland from 1794 to 1999.
Book Synopsis A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 by : Matthew Esposito
Download or read book A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 written by Matthew Esposito and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography, this third volume explores the railways through Eurasia.
