Iron Horses

Author : Verla Kay
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Horses written by Verla Kay and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome aboard! Travel back in time to join the workers of the Union Pacific Railroad as they pounded west and those from the Central Pacific Railroad as they charged east to build the first transcontinental rail line in the United States. They were racing to meet in Utah, and it was high drama all the way. Workers had to burst through rocky outcrops while hanging in baskets and sleep in tents on top of railroad cars or in barracks buried in snow. Bouncy, short verse highlights the steps it took to finally bring the tracks together, and powerful illustrations capture the landscape and the labor.

Author : E. P. Alexander
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486142779
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Horses written by E. P. Alexander and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful stories about old locomotives — from a 1769 Parisian steam carriage to the mighty locomotives that thundered across the American West in the late 1800s. 98 illustrations.

Author : Walter R. Borneman
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316371793
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Horses written by Walter R. Borneman and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "masterly" account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad (Douglas Brinkley) by the author of the bestselling The Admirals. After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago. In Iron Horses, Borneman recounts the rivalries, contested routes, political posturing, and business dealings that unfolded as an increasing number of lines pushed their way across the country. Borneman brings to life the legendary robber barons behind it all and also captures the herculean efforts required to construct these roads -- the laborers who did the back-breaking work, the brakemen who ran atop moving cars, the tracklayers crushed and killed by runaway trains. From backroom deals in Washington, DC, to armed robberies of trains in the wild deserts, from cattle cars to streamliners and Super Chiefs, all the great incidents and innovations of a mighty American era are made vivid in Iron Horses.

Author : Michael Coorlim
Publisher : Pomoconsumption Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Horses Can't Be Broken written by Michael Coorlim and published by Pomoconsumption Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you ever truly atone for the sins of the past? When British detective Alton Bartleby mustered out of the Royal Navy a decade ago, he saw his family with new eyes. Saw how his father’s love of drink and his sisters’ and mother’s lavish lifestyle was quickly draining the modest fortune he’d managed to acquire. Perhaps rashly, perhaps justifiably, he had his father committed and the women exiled to America, arranging a wealthy husband for his elder sister Sarah. He spent the next ten years restoring his family name and fortune, while working as a consulting detective in London. He didn’t think of them again. Until now. Until his wife Aldora booked them a holiday in the American Southwest, to the small Arizona town he’d forgotten. To the territory of Robert Koning, a brutal thug once promised a young woman’s hand, a murderous bastard left at the altar when Sarah ran off with a Zuni mechanic, leaving a theft and a murder in their wake. Aldora had intended to force reconciliation with his sisters. Instead Alton finds himself forced to hunt down his missing sister for the man she left behind. Can he save Sarah from the monster that pursues her, or will all of the Bartlebys end up in unmarked graves in the desert?

Author : Richard DeLuca
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819571733
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post Roads & Iron Horses written by Richard DeLuca and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys in Connecticut Post Roads & Iron Horses is the first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. This is an indispensable reference book for those interested in Connecticut history and a great gift for transportation buffs of all kinds.

Author : Arthur H. Bolden
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496968166
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Iron Horses and a Butterfly written by Arthur H. Bolden and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a treatise on family history and is primarily about three gentlemen and a woman. They represent ancestors, from three different generations, who nobly carried their family torch and established high standards to which succeeding generations would aspire. These ancestors respectively, are two male slaves, the son of a freed slave and a daughter of the son of a freed slave. Their lives spanned three vastly different eras of American history, and each of them remarkably exhibited immense courage, patience, intelligence, insight, resourcefulness, the ability to endure, the willingness to struggle and the faith to sacrifice against all odds. Embedded in their landscapes were enormous setbacks, perils and personal tragedy, however each of them elected to move forward in a bold and ambitious manner like the iconic “Iron Horse.” At a juncture in American history when our individual futures are severely challenged, these four are featured because their stories are very illuminating, because they were, under the circumstances, heroic ancestors who withstood many of the challenges of their eras, because they possessed great character, and not because of any amount of materiality they accumulated. Their stories serve to memorialize the victims of bondage and Jim Crow and to communicate the history, culture and principles of two proud American families. There are noted ancestors of other families across this great country that deserve a similar distinction and maybe this treatise will inspire such an undertaking.

Author : Patrick H. Stakem
Publisher : Pat Stakem
ISBN 13 : 0972596623
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the (Iron) Horses Mouth written by Patrick H. Stakem and published by Pat Stakem. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transcription of Ross winans pocket notebook converning delivery of locomotives 1830-1860, cross-referenced with the rosters of the customer railroads. A copy of Winans' locomotive patents is included in chronological order, showing the development process.Technical, Economic, failure analysis of thc locomotives. Extensive references. End notes. Five pictures. covers the development process of "The Baltimore Engines"

Author : Sheryl Nantus
Publisher : Sheryl Nantus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Cards and Iron Horses written by Sheryl Nantus and published by Sheryl Nantus. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their love rides on a spring and a prayer... During the recent war, a soldier gave his life to save Jonathan Handleston. With the help of an advanced metal brace on his crippled hand, Jon travels from one poker tournament to the next, determined to earn enough money to pay the debt he owes to the dead soldier's family. Prosperity Ridge is supposed to be the last stop on his quest, but his brace is broken and he needs an engineer to repair the delicate mechanisms. The only one available is Samantha Weatherly, a beautiful anomaly in a world ruled by men. Sam is no fool. Jon is no different from any other gambler--except for his amazing prosthetic. Despite a demanding project to win a critical contract to develop an iron horse, she succumbs to the lure of working on the delicate mechanisms. And working with the handsome Englishman. But danger lurks on the horizon as an old enemy arrives to thwart Jon's mission of redemption, ready to take out anyone or anything that stands in his way...

Author : Gerald M. Best
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Horses to Promontory written by Gerald M. Best and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In picture and text this book tells of the locomotives involved in the building of the first transcontinental railroad and its completion with the driving of a golden spike into a laurel tie at Promontory Utah, May 10, 1869. The rolling stock is described; the locomotive builders too long neglected, are presented and the writer brings to the reader interested in the Pioneer West, many "happenings" along the line which have hitherto not been published. This book also includes many rare and unpublished photographs of construction times, locomotives, and scenes along the route by such acknowledged cameramen of the time as Andrew J. Russell, S. ). Sedgwick, Charles 11. Savage, and Alfred A. Hart. There are maps, timetables and documentary reproductions, a complete roster of motive power of the Central Pacific to 1891 mid the Union Pacific to 1885 and scale model drawings of Central Pacific No. 60 Jupiter and Union Pacific No. 119.

Author : Lawrence Scanlan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307364216
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Horse of Iron written by Lawrence Scanlan and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part history, part memoir, this tale of Canada’s heritage horse is a moving odyssey into the past — and one man’s heart. Saving what’s left of our history often falls to a passionate few. This is the case with a group of horse breeders who have pledged to re-establish Canada’s heritage horse, aptly called the Canadian — a breed descended from the Norman horses that took European knights into battle. Habitants of old Quebec called this uncommonly strong breed le petit cheval de fer — the little horse of iron — and in many ways the tumultuous story of this horse mirrors the history of Canada. Little Horse of Iron tells the story of one man and his horse. At the age of 50, Lawrence Scanlan bought his first horse — a Canadian called Saroma Dark Fox Dali. A spirited and untrained young Canadian gelding, Dali taught Scanlan a great deal about patience, fear and courage. Always candid and often amusing, the year-long diary of their relationship deftly explores the joys and sorrows as both horse and human struggle to trust and understand each other. Along the way, we meet the people who prize the Canadian horse’s unparalleled contributions over three centuries — on the family farm, on the battlefield, on the race track and in the show ring. Marvellously detailed and rich in character, Little Horse of Iron is a heart-warming celebration of one horse, and of his breed — Canada’s own.