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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798120303321

Autore

Loving Rush

Titolo

The well-dressed hobo : the many wondrous adventures of a man who loves trains / / Rush Loving Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-253-02072-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Collana

Railroads past and present

Disciplina

385.0973

Soggetti

Railroads - United States - History

Railroads - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; THE WELL-DRESSED HOBO; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments                      ; Introduction: A Mix of Love and Luck                                           ; 1 Rumbling up the Horseshoe                                  ; 2 Averell Harriman and His Streamliner                                             ; 3 Sin and the Aspiring Reporter                                      ; 4 Al Perlman Buys a Hill                               ; 5 The Country Boy Who Was King of Florida

6 Wooing Bankers with a Railway Car                                          7 The Locomotive That Sashayed                                     ; 8 The "Token Yokel" Meanders North                                         ; 9 The Biggest Railroad Story of Them All                                               ; 10 "The Greatest Thing Since Sex and Watermelon"                                                       ; 11 The Merger That Worked                                ; 12 The Dinner Debate with Graham Claytor

13 The Steadfast Colonel and the Unsteady Rock                                                     14 "Who Knows Hays Watkins?"                                   ; 15 A Modern Annie Oakley Takes on Lou Menk                                                 ; 16 The Lawyer's Son from Buffalo                                       ; 17 "Hays Must Not Know"                              ; 18 J. B. Hunt Takes a Ride on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe                                                                      ; 19 Two Empty Limousines



20 "They Nod Off Regularly on the Job"                                             21 Déjà Vu Once More                           ; 22 Their Greatest Task                             ; Index