Mighty Good Road

Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253049896

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A Mighty Fine Road by H. Roger Grant Pdf

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What followed was a cycle of resurrections and bankruptcies; a grueling, ten-year, ultimately unsuccessful battle to merge with the Union Pacific; and the Rock Island's final liquidation in 1981. But today, long after its glory days and eventual demise, the "Mighty Fine Road" has left behind a living legacy of major and feeder lines throughout the country. In his latest work, railroad historian H. Roger Grant offers an accessible, gorgeously illustrated, and comprehensive history of this iconic American railroad.

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783231836

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The Big Guitar Chord Songbook: The Fifties by Wise Publications Pdf

Now, with The Big Guitar Chord Songbook: The Fifties you can play eighty-five rock and pop classics from the hey-day of guitar music and the era that brought us Rock 'n' Roll. Each song is arranged in the original keys, complete with full lyrics, guitar chord boxes and a playing guide. The setlist includes : - All Shook Up [Elvis Presley] - At The Hop [Danny & The Juniors] - Blueberry Hill [Fats Domino] - Brown-Eyed Handsome Man [Chuck Berry] - Bye Bye Love [The Everly Brothers] - Chantilly Lace [The Big Bopper] - Folsom Prison Blues [Johnny Cash] - Hoots Mon [Lord Rockingham XI] - I’m Movin’ On [Hank Snow] - La Bamba [Ritchie Valens] - Lucille [Little Richard] - Memories Are Made Of This [Dean Martin] - Peggy Sue [Buddy Holly] - Personality [Lloyd Price] - Poison Ivy [The Coasters] - Rock Around The Clock [Bill Haley & His Comets] - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes [The Platters] - Smokestack Lightning [Howlin’ Wolf] - Tequila [The Champs] - Unchained Melody [Jimmy Young] - Walkin’ After Midnight [Patsy Cline] - Who Do You Love? [Bo Diddley] And many more!

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783230860

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The Little Black Songbook: Hit Songs For Ukulele by Wise Publications Pdf

The Little Black Songbook returns with a collection of hit songs from the biggest names in pop, arranged for Ukulele, each with complete lyrics and chords. This handy songbook is perfect for any aspiring ukulele strummer, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to expand your ukulele repertoire in a simple way. This little book includes: - Across The Universe [The Beatles] - Bird On The Wire [Leonard Cohen] - Can't Get You Out Of My Head [Kylie Minogue] - Crazy [Gnarls Barkley] - Empire State Of Mind (Part II) [Alicia Keys] - Gold Dust Woman [Fleetwood Mac] - Have A Nice Day [Stereophonics] - Highway To Hell [AC/DC] - Love In Vain [The Rolling Stones] - Make You Feel My Love [Adele] - Raspberry Beret [Prince & The Revolution] - Roxanne [The Police] - Should I Stay Or Should I Go [The Clash] - Stand By Me [Ben E. King] - Sweet Caroline [Neil Diamond] - Sweet Home Alabama [Lynyrd Skynyrd] - Toxic [Britney Spears] - Three Little Birds [Bob Marley & The Wailers] - Use Somebody [Kings of Leon] - Video Games [Del Ray, Lana] - Viva La Vida [Coldplay] - White Rabbit [Jefferson Airplane] - Wichita Lineman [Glen Campbell] And many, many more!

Author : Kenneth C. Gardner, Jr.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491772843

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Travels On The Road To America by Kenneth C. Gardner, Jr. Pdf

Chris Cockburn, the main character in the novel The Song Is Ended, is eight years older. He buys a 1970 Honda CB750, Candy Ruby Red, and sets off on a trip from North Dakota to New Orleans and back. He meets bikers, waitresses, gas station attendants, preachers, pimps, prostitutes and policemen, the common people of America, as well seeing some places significant in the cultural history of the United States. More importantly, he discovers a theme over one hundred and thirty years old that, if adopted, could enhance the moral fiber of American life.

Author : Norm Cohen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252068815

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Long Steel Rail by Norm Cohen Pdf

Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105125357413

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Railway Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Madison Smartt Bell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504021296

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Zig Zag Wanderer by Madison Smartt Bell Pdf

A story collection spanning New York to Haiti and beyond from the National Book Award–finalist and author of Barking Man. Spanning twenty years, Bell’s third collection of stories showcases his phenomenal literary range and his unwavering focus on characters looking in from the outside. Punks, hustlers, and lost souls of all ages and backgrounds are drawn with an exquisite eye for detail and astonishing compassion. As in the title story, many of these pieces refer to popular songs like “Fall on Me” and “Summertime,” or are centered around music (“Leadbelly in Paris”), and the settings travel the globe from New York to Paris to Haiti to London. Bell, a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race, once again affirms his status as one of our best writers, one “with an ear for the seemingly inaudible emotions of life” (Los Angeles Times).

Author : Lloyd Leiderman
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781982233440

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A Trilogy in Maya Book Three by Lloyd Leiderman Pdf

The Magic in Maya examines how you play an integral role in God’s ever evolving destiny. Your everyday outlook and activities can enable the infinite One to grow and realize joy. Within you, the Zoroastrian twins Spenta Mainyu and Angra Mainyu activate divine Love’s Real imagery, which your consciousness creates and encounters in maya’s arena. It’s up to you to tailor your awareness to recognize your Higher Self right within maya’s potentially illusory fabric and to reject the phantoms that arise from it. That spiritual practice will liberate you to bring alchemical verve to everyday life.

Author : William Gilmore Simms,James West
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781557289223

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Backwoods Tales by William Gilmore Simms,James West Pdf

The writings of William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) provide a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all of its regional diversity. Simms’s account of the region is more comprehensive than that of any other author of his time; he treats the major intellectual and social issues of the South and depicts the bonds and tensions among all of its inhabitants. By the mid-1840s Simms’s novels were so well known that Edgar Allan Poe could call him “the best novelist which this country has, on the whole, produced.” The twelfth volume in the ongoing Arkansas Edition of the works of William Gilmore Simms, Backwoods Tales brings together three of the best examples of his comic writing. All were written during the last decade of Simms’s life, when he had become a master of his craft. These three tales belong in the tradition of southern backwoods humor, a genre that flourished before the Civil War and produced classic tales by such authors as George Washington Harris, Johnson Jones Hooper, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. Paddy McGann, “Sharp Snaffles,” and “Bill Bauldy” are all frame tales, told by rustic narrators in authentic dialect, with frequent pauses for libation and comment. These three pieces of writing, never before published together, stand among the best examples of American humor of the nineteenth century.

Author : Dane Coolidge
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547218685

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Wunpost by Dane Coolidge Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Wunpost" by Dane Coolidge. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Robert McKenzie
Publisher : Fresh Ink Group
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947867932

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The Chair: Volume II by Robert McKenzie Pdf

A grand epic saga by Robert McKenzie, The Chairspans centuries, touching the lives of 22 related mothers and daughters, their stories witnessed by a simple pine chair. Resolute, strong, loving, and fiercely protective, these women must strive to pass their values to new generations in a world of racism and sexism, politics, scandal, fashion—even the rise and dominance of baseball. They live in privilege and poverty, with faith and despair, relishing every moment of love even as they suffer abiding grief. Volume I: Lightning, Thunder, & Glory spans the 1600s through WWI, while Volume II: Faith, Hope, & Lovefollows these women’s descendants into modern times and beyond. An authentic and uniquely American novel, The Chairconjures the very hallmarks of history, yet navigates the simple intimacy of everyday lives to reveal who and why we are. Everybody sits, so find your own seat and discover The Chair.

Author : Dane Coolidge
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1725 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066383060

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The Collected Works of Dane Coolidge by Dane Coolidge Pdf

Dane Coolidge (1873-1940) was an American author, naturalist, and photographer. He is best known for his Western novels and his non-fiction books about the American West. Coolidge wrote short stories for magazines and made illustrations and his book Rimrock Jones was adapted into the film. _x000D_ This carefully crafted ebook collection of his works is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:_x000D_ Hidden Water_x000D_ The Texican_x000D_ Bat Wing Bowles_x000D_ The Desert Trail_x000D_ Rimrock Jones_x000D_ Shadow Mountain_x000D_ Silver and Gold_x000D_ Wunpost_x000D_ The Man-Killers

Author : Dane Coolidge
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1725 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338116819

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Dane Coolidge - Boxed Set by Dane Coolidge Pdf

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique western collection containing western classics, adventure novels, cowboy tales and gold rush stories. Content: Hidden Water The Texican Bat Wing Bowles The Desert Trail Rimrock Jones Shadow Mountain Silver and Gold Wunpost The Man-Killers Dane Coolidge (1873-1940) was an American author, naturalist, and photographer. He is best known for his Western novels and his non-fiction books about the American West. Coolidge wrote short stories for magazines and made illustrations and his book Rimrock Jones was adapted into the film.

Author : Andrew Dow
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780801882920

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Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations by Andrew Dow Pdf

Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations is an authoritative compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. More than 3,400 entries are drawn from over 1,300 writers and speakers and a wide range of original sources both British and American—Acts of Parliament, poetry, songs, journals, advertisements, obituaries, novels, histories, plays, films, office memoranda, speeches, newspapers, television and radio broadcasts, and private documents and conversations. Here Andrew Dow records remarkable, memorable words—from the well-known to the abstruse, from the commonplace to the vital. The selected quotations are arranged by subject matter and searchable by speaker, subject, and keyword. Dow's Dictionary will inform and captivate railway enthusiasts along with readers interested in railway architecture, engineering, geography, and history.

Author : Michael Esterowitz
Publisher : Shacor, Inc.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Music
ISBN : 0943748194

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How to Play from a Fake Book by Michael Esterowitz Pdf

For keyboard players of all levels. Fake books are used by professional musicians at cocktail lounges, weddings, and many other performing situation. They are invaluable because they contain a thousand or more songs in one compact volume. But in order to use them one must know how to look at a kind of musical shorthand--a skeleton of each song which gives only melody, lyrics and chord symbols--and "fake" a full accompaniment. Now, anyone can! This book will teach you how to play any chord symbol you will find in pop, jazz or rock; how to create stylish arrangements on your own; and how to sound like a "pro" even when reading sheet music for the first time. Topics include bass lines, counter-melodies, intros and endings, rhythmic patterns, and embellishing a melody.--From publisher description