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The well-dressed hobo : the many wondrous adventures of a man who loves trains / Rush Loving Jr.
LIBRA HE2751 .L69 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loving, Rush, author.
- Series:
- Railroads past and present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loving, Rush.
- Railroads--United States--History.
- Railroads.
- United States.
- History.
- Railroads--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 365 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- 1 Rumbling up the Horseshoe 6
- 2 Averell Harriman and His Streamliner 22
- 3 Sin and the Aspiring Reporter 39
- 4 Al Perlman Buys a Hill 63
- 5 The Country Boy Who Was King of Florida 75
- 6 Wooing Bankers with a Railway Car 89
- 7 The Locomotive That Sashayed 110
- 8 The "Token Yokel" Meanders North 120
- 9 The Biggest Railroad Story of Them All 136
- 10 "The Greatest Thing Since Sex and Watermelon" 154
- 11 The Merger That Worked 165
- 11 The Dinner Debate with Graham Claytor 179
- 13 The Steadfast Colonel and the Unsteady Rock 188
- 14 "Who Knows Hays Watkins?" 212
- 15 A Modern Annie Oakley Takes on Lou Menk 229
- 16 The Lawyer's Son from Buffalo 246
- 17 "Hays Must Not Know" 253
- 18 J. B. Hunt Takes a Ride on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 275
- 19 Two Empty Limousines 292
- 20 "They Nod Off Regularly on the Job" 303
- 21 Déjà Vu Once More 321
- 22 Their Greatest Task 343.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Loving, Rush, author. Well-dressed hobo.
- ISBN:
- 9780253020635
- 0253020638
- OCLC:
- 920017385
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