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Loving Rush |
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The well-dressed hobo : the many wondrous adventures of a man who loves trains / / Rush Loving Jr |
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Bloomington, Indiana ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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Collana |
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Railroads past and present |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Railroads - United States - History |
Railroads - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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