Irish Gandy Dancer

Author : Ryan Michael Collins
Publisher : Createspace Indie Pub Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781452826318
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Gandy Dancer written by Ryan Michael Collins and published by Createspace Indie Pub Platform. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McGlinchey, a young Irish transplant from County Donegal finds little opportunity in South Philadelphia during Reconstruction era America. His war time savings nearly depleted, he is determined to find work and joins hundreds of his countrymen in one of the greatest engineering quests of the time, building the Trans-Continental Railroad. McGlinchey provides a first person narrative of the events he encounters that overturn many of his contemporary views of race and religion while at the same time providing an unvarnished view of people great and small that shaped this grand endeavor.

Author : Gandy Dancer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942341628
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best of Gandy Dancer 2012-1018 written by Gandy Dancer and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Russ Bainbridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806247526
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of a Gandy Dancer written by Russ Bainbridge and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John R. Carden
Publisher : PublishAmerica
ISBN 13 : 1456082140
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seth and Samson Blair written by John R. Carden and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seth and Samson Blair continues the saga of an Old West lawman, Seth Blair. Sam had honorably served in the army; as a cattle drover for Shanghai Pierce, had worked undercover for the Texas Rangers, and finally he had been a United States Marshal. It was while he was serving Los Angeles that an Event happened that was unique in the History of the Cosmic All! From the Old West, Sam was somehow transported though Time to modern-day Los Angeles! Electric lights, automobiles, jet planes, cell phones, and a thousand other sights and sounds were entirely new to his senses! Amid all the new wonders, he had to survive and he had to return to his own Time! But Time can play strange tricks on mortals! Literally anything can happen when a few space aliens, mages, shape shifters, and the fabled Winds of Destiny are added to the mix!

Author : Vincent Joseph Monteleone
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584773006
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criminal Slang written by Vincent Joseph Monteleone and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating addition to any criminal law history library or collection, this book will likely be perused often. With a new introduction by Bryan A. Garner, President, LawProse, Inc. [1-2 new introduction], 292 pp. Originally published: Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1949. Monteleone was a police officer with thirty-two years of service throughout the United States. He compiled this collection of words and phrases used by the "gangster, tramp or hobo" over the course of a career that spanned the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Both instructive and amusing, it contains hundreds of entries relating to criminal matters of the time, such as "Academy" (a jail), "Across the River" (dead), "Grease the Track" (to fall under a moving train), "Looseners" (prunes), "Sprinkle the Flowers" (to distribute bribes), "Suey Bowel" (A Chinese opium den), "Write Short Stories" (to forge checks) and "Zib" (an easy victim). Also includes a table of hobo code symbols.

Author : Guy Franks
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663204632
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railhead written by Guy Franks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In his time, Robert Riordan was called a ‘Lincoln Man’ and a ‘Railroad Man’ but these terms attested more to his politics than to his character. He was a gentleman who clearly saw the line between good and evil...” So writes his biographer Pete Hammond, many years later, as he recollects the man who set out to tame the ‘Hell on Wheels’ town of Goshen, Wyoming. In 1869, Goshen is a wide-open town at war with itself. Gambling halls and brothels are big business yet the town is bankrupt, and murder and graft are common place. Can the young railroad town become a place where law-abiding folks can raise their families, or will it end up a shot up, gambled-out ghost town like Julesburg, ‘The Wickedest City in the West’? The fate of the town rests with one man—‘Butch’ Riordan—and all his grit and savvy may not be enough to check the forces seeking to destroy it. Railhead is an authentically detailed story of the post-Civil War West set against the backdrop of the lawless towns created by the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. Meet the special breed of men and women who civilized the wind-swept plains of Wyoming, along with the man Robert Riordan, who should seem very familiar to the readers of America.

Author : Helen Brennan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1589790030
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Irish Dance written by Helen Brennan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international success of Riverdance has focused new attention on Irish dance, which is the subject of this first history of what has become an international cultural phenomenon. Tracing the origins of dance back to early medieval accounts, this volume also charts the developments of the 18th century, exploring how dance played a vital role in the formation of a new national culture.

Author : Rob Robinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304225550
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady and the Gandydancer written by Rob Robinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean O'Sullivan, once a roaring twenties playboy, has been forced by his railroad president father to work as a Gandydancer, unskilled workers who use shovel and pick to keep the rail lines straight, a job that begins to have a positive effect, when one night he finds himself rescuing Anne Miller, a spoiled coed abandoned on a mean street in Baltimore by her feckless date when she resists his amorous advances. Sean lets her believe he is a common laborer, and she is charmed by his gentlemanly ways, but unsure that he could ever fit into her upper class life. When Sean meets the saddened sister of one of his fellow workers whose fiancé was lost in the Great War, he, too, is torn, unable to choose between two women who both believe he is merely a Gandydancer.

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786026634
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preacher's Justice/fury Of The Mt Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preacher's Justice He Fought For His Freedom In a land of towering mountains and howling winds, a man has found a home--away from other men and away from memories of the past. A trapper by trade, a fighter at heart, he has earned the name "Preacher," and a legend of his own. He Fought For His Life In the wilds, Preacher has learned the rules of survival, and he has killed in order to live. But now something is forcing him out of his Rocky Mountain range for the so-called "civilized" world. It is the memory of a woman. It is her blood calling out for revenge. . . Now, He'll Fight For The Truth In St. Louis, a girl from Preacher's past has been murdered. For the man whose heart she once touched, the time has come to leave the high wild country--for truth, justice and a new reason to kill. . . Rage Of The Mountain Man Big As A Bear, Sly As A Cougar, Mean As A Rattlesnake. . . His Name Is Smoke Jensen: Mountain Man. . . Smoke Jensen is the most powerful man on the Sugarloaf frontier--and he's all that stands between a greedy group of Eastern slickers and their schemes for a criminal empire in the Rockies. When Smoke heads back to Boston with his wife, it gives his enemies the opening they'd been waiting for: to kill the mountain man and take over the West. But even on the unfamiliar turf of back alleys and teeming docks, Smoke is more than most men can handle. . .until his wife is kidnapped. Now Smoke is in a fury and in this fight all the way from Boston back to Dodge City and up to Yellowstone, where a brutal showdown with a gang of hired guns awaits. . .and where, in a blazing hail of bullets and blood, the legend of the big man is about to grow even bigger. . .

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553899449
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man from Skibbereen written by Louis L'Amour and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who’d left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station—and a mystery. The shack was abandoned, but fresh blood spattered the floor, and the telegraph was clicking away unattended. When Mayo stepped inside and put a hand on the telegraph key, he had no way of knowing the course of his life would change forever—and that he would become entangled with a band of Civil War veterans with a score to settle against the government…and a feisty young woman who’d risk anything to save the people she loved. Cris Mayo, who had never backed away from a fight in his life, was about to have his courage put to the ultimate test.