Author: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company
Author: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Jesse James
Author: T.J. Stiles
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030777337X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure. "Carries the reader scrupulously through James’s violent, violent life.... When [Stiles]… calls Jesse James the ‘last rebel of the Civil War; he correctly defines the theme that ruled Jesse’s life." —Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove via The New Republic Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided Missouri, at age sixteen James became a bushwhacker, one of the savage Confederate guerrillas that terrorized the border states. After the end of the war, James continued his campaign of robbery and murder into the brutal era of reconstruction, when his reckless daring, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with the sympathetic editor John Newman Edwards placed him squarely at the forefront of the former Confederates’ bid to recapture political power. With meticulous research and vivid accounts of the dramatic adventures of the famous gunman, T. J. Stiles shows how he resembles not the apolitical hero of legend, but rather a figure ready to use violence to command attention for a political cause—in many ways, a forerunner of the modern terrorist.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030777337X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure. "Carries the reader scrupulously through James’s violent, violent life.... When [Stiles]… calls Jesse James the ‘last rebel of the Civil War; he correctly defines the theme that ruled Jesse’s life." —Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove via The New Republic Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided Missouri, at age sixteen James became a bushwhacker, one of the savage Confederate guerrillas that terrorized the border states. After the end of the war, James continued his campaign of robbery and murder into the brutal era of reconstruction, when his reckless daring, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with the sympathetic editor John Newman Edwards placed him squarely at the forefront of the former Confederates’ bid to recapture political power. With meticulous research and vivid accounts of the dramatic adventures of the famous gunman, T. J. Stiles shows how he resembles not the apolitical hero of legend, but rather a figure ready to use violence to command attention for a political cause—in many ways, a forerunner of the modern terrorist.
Railroad Gazette
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Railway Age
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Languages : en
Pages : 1432
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Languages : en
Pages : 1432
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Railway Times
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Publications
Author: Illinois State Historical Society
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Railway Age and Northwestern Railroad
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
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Commercial West
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
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The Financier
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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