A treasury of railroad folklore : the stories, tall tales, traditions, ballads and songs of the American railroad man /
| Други автори: | Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975, (joint ed.), Harlow, Alvin F. 1875-1963, (joint ed.) |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York, N.Y. :
Crown Publishers
c1953.
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Online version::
Treasury of railroad folklore. |
Съдържание:
- Part one: Iron horses and iron men: All in day's work
- Headlines and heroes
- Part two: Apprentice years: Operation by trial and error
- Iron horse goes to war
- Advancing frontier
- Grand strategy
- Part three: Vanishing types: Boomer and home guard
- Banditti of the rails
- Rail stiffs
- Cracker-barrel railroads
- Part four: Main line and sidetrack: Tools and tricks of trade
- It did happen here
- Told in roundhouse
- passenger is always right
- Blues, ballads, and work songs
- Negro gang work songs
- Brave engineers
- Hobo songs
- Part five: Blues, ballads and love songs
- Railroadiana.