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Author : Brooke Harris
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781604379570
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Author : Jay Youngdahl
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874218541
For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives. Jay Youngdahl, an attorney who has represented Navajo workers in claims with their railroad employers since 1992 and who more recently earned a master's in divinity from Harvard, has used oral history and archival research to write a cultural history of Navajos' work on the railroad and the roles their religious traditions play in their lives of hard labor away from home.
Author : Norm Cohen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252068815
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 : William Emmett Studwell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 0789001500
William Studwell has struck gold again! Providing a heterogenous mixture of songs that mirrors the diversity of the United States and its culture, The Americana Song Reader is an entertaining and informative collection of over 130 historical essays on various American and foreign songs that have had a significant impact on U.S. popular culture. The essays give you basic historical data on the work, refer to any related or affiliated works, and touch upon the cultural context of its creation and popular usage in the United States. Presented in an offbeat, somewhat irreverent, yet scholarly style, the author has once again compiled a reference book that is fun to read. In addition to presenting information useful for reference, The Americana Song Reader contains anecdotes, ironic sidelights, poetry, and allusions to parodies. For ease of use, the book is divided into several sections. These sections, with some representative songs listed, include: Dancing Songs: “After the Ball,” “The Hokey Pokey,” “Sleeping Beauty Waltz” Marching Songs: “March of the Toys,” “When the Saints Go Marching In” Rural and Western Songs: “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” “Jessie James,” “The Streets of Laredo” Songs That Excite or Amuse: “An American in Paris,” “1812 Overture,” “The Sidewalks of New York” Songs That Soothe or Bring Tears: “Beautiful Dreamer,” “I'm Always Chasing Rainbows,” “My Wild Irish Rose” Children's Songs: “Hansel and Gretel,” “Pop Goes the Weasel,” “Sing a Song of Sixpence” Circus Songs: “Barnum and Bailey's Favorite,” “Be a Clown,” “The Flying Trapeze” Drinking Songs: “Auld Lange Syne,” “Little Brown Jug,” “Ninety Nine Bottles of Beer” College Songs: “Iowa Corn Song,” “Notre Dame Victory Song,” “The Whiffenpoof Song” Song title index and author/group index Whether the music comes from New York City, remote rural areas of the South or West, or from Vienna or Paris, all music having some sort of impact on the lives of everyday Americans is in a very true way part of Americana. In The Americana Song Reader, you'll see the songs both as small pieces of the American culture puzzle and, collectively, as a large segment of the music of the country. This newest addition to William Studwell's collection of song readers will delight the general public, musicians, and librarians.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
ISBN : 9780309128933
Examines five broad areas of performance including transportation, environment, economics, community, and cost.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Railroads
ISBN : LOC:00186824271
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Folk songs, English
ISBN : 059010702X
An illustrated presentation of the familiar folk song about railroad life.
Author : United States. Railroad Retirement Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Railroads
ISBN : IND:30000098831328
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9785872797159
1896. 44th Annual report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Connecticut, to which are added statistical tables complied from the annual returns of the steam and street railroad companies of the state for the year ending June 30, and September 30, 1896, respectively.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Railway Labor Act Amendments
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
ISBN : MINN:31951D02113399Q
Considers legislation to require court review and arbitration of railroad labor-management disputes and strikes.
Author : Herbert H. Harwood
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253001559
This account of a doomed enterprise is “an important contribution to both rail and road history, as well as to business history”—photos and maps included (The Lexington Quarterly). Stretching over two hundred miles through Pennsylvania’s most challenging mountain terrain, the South Pennsylvania Railroad would form the heart of a new trunk line, from the East Coast to Pittsburgh and the Midwest. Conceived in 1881 by William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and a group of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia industrialists, it was intended to break the rival Pennsylvania Railroad’s near-monopoly in the region. But the line was within a year of opening when J.P. Morgan brokered a peace treaty that aborted the project and helped bolster his position in the world of finance. The railroad right of way and its tunnels would sit idle for sixty years—before coming to life in the late 1930s as the original section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Based on original letters, documents, diaries, and newspaper reports, The Railroad That Never Was uncovers the truth behind this mysterious railway, one of the most infamous construction projects of the late nineteenth century.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UIUC:30112121381047
Author : United States. Commission on Railroad Retirement
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1842 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Railroads
ISBN : MINN:31951D038634250
Author : Ian Schacht
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453524916
The history of the settlement of the west can in many aspects be attributed to the coming of a railroad. To the first settlers the railroads provided the opportunities to link up with markets across the nation without having to travel far from their farms. The lines brought hope and change, but also brought crime and corruption. The story of almost every town west of the Mississippi can in some way be linked to the story of the railroad that serviced the area. These towns grew over the years in size and economic wealth as the amounts of trade and transport transformed the line into a funnel for economic progress. Though the railroads would eventually be challenged by trucking companies and personal automobiles, the business the railroads had help establish lead the community into the wealth they have today. In the northern Iowa county of Winneshiek, each town holds the perfect example of railroad successes and failures. Each town holds their own heritage, which can uniquely be associated with many other towns across the west. The heritage left by the railroads can be directly linked to the heritage of the western United States. To look at the history of us, we need to look into the founding of the railroads.
Author : United States Railroad Labor Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
ISBN : PRNC:32101064495342
