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From the author of McTeague: The classic novel of corporate corruption and violent rebellion in the railroad industry. On May 11, 1880, at a San Joaquin Valley ranch, a shootout between tenant farmers and a sheriff's posse left seven dead. The dispute was over land rights. The law was acting in the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad. This tragedy marked the beginning of the end for the American frontier, and it became the inspiration for Frank...
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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In 1922, the US Forest Service offered one of the largest timber sales in the agency's history, encompassing 890 million board feet of mostly Ponderosa pine timber in the mountains north of Burns, Oregon. Among other requirements, the sale terms required the successful bidder to build and operate 80 miles of common carrier railroad through some of the most remote and undeveloped country in the state. The Fred Herrick Lumber Company and its Malheur
...4) Can't you hear the whistle blowin': logs, lignite, and locomotives in Coos County, Oregon, 1850-1930
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William Lansing
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
5) Trains
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Thameside Press
Pub. Date
c2002
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Traces the development of railroads from the first steam engines to modern high-speed trains
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Trailsman volume 262
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English
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Skye’s been working on the railroad!
Skye Fargo has never had a kind word for the railroad barons, but they sure do pay well. While playing bodyguard to a surveying team in Wyoming, Skye catches a glimpse of the famous “Orphan Train,” full of street urchins from New York City hoping to find families among the settlers of the west.
Then without warning, a gang of desperadoes attacks the train and kidnaps the...
Skye Fargo has never had a kind word for the railroad barons, but they sure do pay well. While playing bodyguard to a surveying team in Wyoming, Skye catches a glimpse of the famous “Orphan Train,” full of street urchins from New York City hoping to find families among the settlers of the west.
Then without warning, a gang of desperadoes attacks the train and kidnaps the...
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Llewellyn Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Like blood gushing through vessels, the world's trains ride on tracks that crisscross through fields, soar over rivers, and wind around mountains transporting passengers and delivering goods to their ultimate destinations. Speaking of ultimate destinations, railroads have delivered something else in their long, storied history: ghost stories. In Haunted Rails, readers will ride through the ghostlore and ghost stories spawned by their connection to...
10) Distant dreams
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Ribbons of steel volume 1
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Bethany House
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English
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In 1835 James Baldwin arrives to serve as Carolina's teacher, but of more importance, he is to court Carolina's beautiful older sister, Virginia. Will expectations--and Virginia's southern charm--elicit the hoped-for proposal? Or will James and Carolina dare to acknowledge the mutual interests and feelings growing between them?
11) The U. P. trail
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English
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"A romance of the stirring days when the railroad first linked the West and East"--Jacket.
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After Father is mysteriously called away, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis enliven their frugal life by visits to the railway station where they find new friends and a timely ally in the Old Gentleman who helps them correct the error that lead to their father's imprisonment
13) Destined for you
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Ladies of the Lake volume 1
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English
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"In 1869, Gloriana Womack's family is much smaller since scarlet fever killed her mother and two of her siblings. She lives in a modest cottage in Duluth, Minnesota, with her father and young brother, and she has dedicated her life to holding her tiny, fractured family together--especially as her father is frequently gone on long fishing trips. Their livelihood may come from the waters of Lake Superior, but storms on the lake can be dangerous, even...
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Byrnes family ranch westerns volume 11
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English
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"U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona desert into a homeland, spearheading a stage line from Gallup to the Colorado River. It will lay out the territory for new settlements, and, be a boon to Navajo trading posts. Unfortunately, it's not Gerald Hall's idea of progress. The mysterious Texas gambler has hired three -- and counting -- kill-crazy assassins to bury Chet under a storm of bullets. To turn the tables on him,...
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2021.
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English
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John Sedgwick recounts the decade-long fight between General William J. Palmer, the Civil War hero leading the "little family" of his Rio Grande, coming down from Denver, hoping to showcase the majesty of the Rockies, and William Barstow Strong, the hard-nosed manager of the corporate-minded Santa Fe, venturing west from Kansas. What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in Colorado soon evolves into an all-out battle as each man...
17) Trains
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Jump!
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This photo-illustrated book for early readers describes the many types of train cars pulled by a freight train and what they are built to carry. Includes photo glossary and matching game"--Provided by publisher.
18) Iron rails, iron men, and the race to link the nation: the story of the transcontinental railroad
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"Experience the race of rails to link the country--and meet the men behind this incredible feat--in a riveting story about the building of the transcontinental railroad, brought to life with archival photos"--Publisher's website.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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This is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. The U.S. government pitted two companies - the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads - against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. At its peak the work force approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as 15,000 workers on each line
20) Locomotive
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
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