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Workin' on the Railroad

Author : Richard Reinhardt
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806135250
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Workin' on the Railroad written by Richard Reinhardt and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The mighty railroad occupied the undisputed center of American public life. The railroad founded cities, populated states, created governments, destroyed the wilderness. It was the great speculator, the political tyrant, the recruiter of immigrants, the opener of new lands, the cynosure of poets and pioneers, the symbol of adventure, opportunity, escape, and power. . . . Yet, the railroad man, for all his historic importance, his archetypal stature, and his economic power, has achieved only a minor position in American literature.”--from Workin’ on the Railroad In Workin’ on the Railroad, Richard Reinhardt presents firsthand accounts from engineers, brakemen, porters, conductors, section men, roundhouse workers, switchmen, telegraphers, surveyors, and other neglected pioneers who worked the railroad during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Age of Steam.

Working on the Railroad

Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610600149
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Working on the Railroad written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Author :
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786820412
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book I've Been Working on the Railroad written by and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated presentation of the familiar folk song about railroad life.

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Author : Ann Owen
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781404801516
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book I've Been Working on the Railroad written by Ann Owen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated version of the traditional song along with some discussion of its folk origins. Includes music and instructions for a musical banjo box.

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Author : Laura Gates Galvin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592497713
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book I've Been Working on the Railroad written by Laura Gates Galvin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated presentation of the American folk song which may have been written to celebrate the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. Includes historical notes and trivia.

Working for the Railroad

Author : Walter Licht
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855845
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Working for the Railroad written by Walter Licht and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Licht chronicles the working and personal lives of the first two generations of American railwaymen, the first workers in America to enter large-scale, bureaucratically managed, corporately owned work organizations. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Overground Railroad

Author : Lesa Cline-Ransome
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1430144467
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Overground Railroad written by Lesa Cline-Ransome and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author and illustrator of Before She Was Harriet comes an original and moving perspective of the Great Migration, as seen through the eyes of the young girl Ruth Ellen, whose family journeys from North Carolina to New York City.

She's Been Working on the Railroad

Author : Nancy Smiler Levinson
Publisher : Dutton Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book She's Been Working on the Railroad written by Nancy Smiler Levinson and published by Dutton Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the story of women who have worked on the railroad in ever-increasing numbers and expanding range of jobs from the mid-1800s to the present.

The Gandy Dancers

Author : Vanita Oelschlager
Publisher : Gandy Dancers
ISBN 13 : 9781938164088
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Gandy Dancers written by Vanita Oelschlager and published by Gandy Dancers. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of folk songs from the industrial revolution.

Traqueros

Author : Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 157441464X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Traqueros written by Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the United States--and Mexico--than did the coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and Midwest. Construction crews soon became railroad workers proper, along with maintenance crews later. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the result of the railroad. The substantial Mexican American populations in these regions today are largely attributable to 19th- and 20th-century railroad work. Only agricultural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexicans. The full history of Mexican American railroad labor and settlement in the United States had not been told, however, until Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo's groundbreaking research in Traqueros. Garcílazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest. He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work performed. He reconstructs the workers' daily lives and explores not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at home and how they accommodated and/or resisted Americanization. Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and "traquero culture" finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is the importance of family settlement in shaping working class communities and consciousness throughout the Midwest.

Nothing Like It In the World

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743203173
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

Ghosts of Gold Mountain

Author : Gordon H. Chang
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 1328618579
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Gold Mountain written by Gordon H. Chang and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guangdong -- Gold Mountain -- Central Pacific -- Foothills -- The High Sierra -- The Summit -- The Strike -- Truckee -- The Golden Spike -- Beyond Promontory.

In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism

Author : J. P. Daughton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393541029
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism written by J. P. Daughton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. African workers were forcibly conscripted and separated from their families, and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage—a “forest of no joy”; excavated by hand thousands of tons of earth in order to lay down track; blasted their way through rock to construct tunnels; or risked their lives building bridges over otherwise impassable rivers. In the process, they suffered disease, malnutrition, and rampant physical abuse, likely resulting in at least 20,000 deaths. In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses—the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe. Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record, and heartbreaking photographic evidence, J.P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad, and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.

Tucson was a Railroad Town

Author : William D. Kalt
Publisher : Vtd Rail Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780971991545
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Tucson was a Railroad Town written by William D. Kalt and published by Vtd Rail Pub.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the railroad in Tucson, Arizona, covers the years of expansion in the late 19th century through the profitable early 20th until the decline of the 1950s, exploring both the passenger and freight industries, the men and women who worked for the railroads in Tucson, and how the railway affected the community.

Iron Women

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493037765
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Iron Women written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Winner for Western Non-Fiction** When the last spike was hammered into the steel track of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, Western Union lines sounded the glorious news of the railroad’s completion from New York to San Francisco. For more than five years an estimated four thousand men mostly Irish working west from Omaha and Chinese working east from Sacramento, moved like a vast assembly line toward the end of the track. Editorials in newspapers and magazines praised the accomplishment and some boasted that the work that “was begun, carried on, and completed solely by men.” The August edition of Godey’s Lady’s Book even reported “No woman had laid a rail and no woman had made a survey.” Although the physical task of building the railroad had been achieved by men, women made significant and lasting contributions to the historic operation. However, the female connection with railroading dates as far back as 1838 when women were hired as registered nurses/stewardesses in passenger cars. Those ladies attended to the medical needs of travelers and also acted as hostesses of sorts helping passengers have a comfortable journey. Beyond nursing and service roles, however, women played a larger part in the actual creation of the rail lines than they have been given credit for. Miss E. F. Sawyer became the first female telegraph operator when she was hired by the Burlington Railroad in Montgomery, Illinois, in 1872. Eliza Murfey focused on the mechanics of the railroad, creating devices for improving the way bearings on a rail wheel attached to train cars responded to the axles. Murfey held sixteen patents for her 1870 invention. In 1879, another woman inventor named Mary Elizabeth Walton developed a system that deflected emissions from the smoke stacks on railroad locomotives. She was awarded two patents for her pollution reducing device. Their stories and many more are included in this illustrated volume celebrating women and the railroad.

Frederick Douglass in Context

Author : Michaël Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108803040
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Frederick Douglass in Context written by Michaël Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass in Context provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century's leading black activist and one of the most celebrated American writers. An international team of scholars sheds new light on the environments and communities that shaped Douglass's career. The book challenges the myth of Douglass as a heroic individualist who towered over family, friends, and colleagues, and reveals instead a man who relied on others and drew strength from a variety of personal and professional relations and networks. This volume offers both a comprehensive representation of Douglass and a series of concentrated studies of specific aspects of his work. It will be a key resource for students, scholars, teachers, and general readers interested in Douglass and his tireless fight for freedom, justice, and equality for all.

Art of the Cut

Author : Steve Hullfish
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 104003649X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Art of the Cut written by Steve Hullfish and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of the widely acclaimed Art of the Cut book published in 2017. This follow-up text expands on its predecessor with wisdom from more than 360 interviews with the world’s best editors (including nearly every Oscar winner from the last 30 years). Because editing is a highly subjective art form, and one that is critical to the success of motion picture storytelling, it requires side-by-side comparisons of the many techniques and solutions used by a wide range of editors from around the world. That is why this book compares and contrasts methodologies from a wide array of diverse voices and organizes that information so that it is easily digested and understood. There is no one way to approach editorial problems, so this book allows readers to see multiple solutions from multiple editors. The interviews contained within are carefully curated into topics that are most important to film editors and those who aspire to become film editors. The questions asked, and the organization of the book, are not merely an academic or theoretical view of the art of editing but rather the practical advice and methodologies of actual working film and TV editors, bringing benefits to both students and professional readers. The book is supplemented by a collection of downloadable online exclusive chapters, which cover additional topics ranging from Choosing the Project to VFX. In addition to the supplementary chapters, access to the full-color, full-resolution images printed in the book—and other exclusive images—is included.