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Gandydancer's Children: A Railroad Memoir

Gandydancer's Children: A Railroad Memoir

Frank Wendell Call

As Dad began introducing him around, I found out that his name was Lord — Andy Lord. He had been foreman of a section on the Modoc Branch that had been cut, and according to the rules, he had to bump the man with the least seniority, ...
Southwestern American Literature

Southwestern American Literature

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Frank Wendell Call died in 1997; we're lucky he left behind such an enjoyable tale. With a father who grew up in a family of twenty-four children, and a Danish mother staunch enough to survive away from home after an early start as a laundry ...
Over the range: a history of the Promontory Summit route of ...

Over the range: a history of the Promontory Summit route of ...

Richard V. Francaviglia

Frank Wendell Call, Gandydancer's Children: A Railroad Memoir (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2ooo). 43. Germano Pucci, interview by Phil Notarianni and Greg Thompson, Brigham City, Utah, Aug. 29, 1974, Ethnic Oral History, pp.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

G. Edward White

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 16, 1876, Harvard University Archives. The letter is quoted in White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 112. 10. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., diary entry, June 17, 1872, Holmes papers. 11.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court ...

Susan-Mary Grant

®Autobiographical. Sketch, ̄ 1861 (Harvard Class Album) 2x Oliver Wendell Holmes« Civil War Diary (Ball«s Bluff) 3x Oliver Wendell Holmes to Father: December 10, 1862 4x Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., ...
Conversations with Wendell Berry

Conversations with Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

So the opportunities for working with my father weren't all that available, but there were other people I worked for and with from the time I was very young. Beattie: Did you think, when you were a child, that 61 Wendell Berry L Elisabeth Beattie.
Call Me Mommy

Call Me Mommy

Marshall Frank

"Call Me Mommy is paced like a bullet train, with an engaging cast of characters you genuinely care about. What a fantastic read!"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence ...

Allen Mendenhall

Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to Baroness Marie Moncheur, July 16, 1910. Harvard University Holmes Digital Suite. Mark DeWolfe Howe's research materials on Holmes, 1858-1968: Finding Aid, October 1909- 1910.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint

Frederic R. Kellogg

The journal of his reading, which he kept from 1865. 1 Howe, Justice Oliver WendellHolmes: TheProvingYears, 11–25, 96; White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 130. 2 Little, “The Early Reading of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,” 80 6 ...
New Collected Poems

New Collected Poems

Wendell Berry

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Citizenship Papers

Citizenship Papers

Wendell Berry

Books get written for all sorts of reasons, and this book was written out of necessity. Citizenship Papers, a collection of 19 essays, is a ringing call of alarm to a nation standing on the brink of global catastrophe.
The Wondrous Journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins

The Wondrous Journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins

Lesley M. M. Blume

The journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins might just be the most extraordinary contribution to the study of the earth's past since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.
The Republican Party and Wendell Willkie

The Republican Party and Wendell Willkie

Donald Bruce Johnson

A comprehensive study of Wendell Willkie as he influenced the Republican Party during the five years he was prominent in American politics.
The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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ROBERT W. GORDON Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was born in 1841 into the center of Boston legal and literary cultures. 1 His maternal grandfather, Charles Jackson, had been a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. His father ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: The Supreme Court and American ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: The Supreme Court and American ...

Sophie W. Littlefield

Though some of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s friends put forward his name, there were other, more likely candidates. McKinley had just begun to consider candidates for the nomination when he was assassinated on September 6, 1901, by a ...
What Are People For?: Essays

What Are People For?: Essays

Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry identifies himself as both “a farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,” which he deftly illustrates in the scope of these 22 essays.
The Annotated Common Law: With 2010 Foreword and Explanatory ...

The Annotated Common Law: With 2010 Foreword and Explanatory ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You showed up a little late to the first presentation in the Lowell Institute series of lectures over the late fall, this installment given by esteemed local lawyer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There's still the restless sound of people easing into their ...
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work.
Standing by Words: Essays

Standing by Words: Essays

Wendell Berry

Standing by Words joins our new series, which celebrates the collected essays of Wendell Berry in beautiful, uniform editions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Emerson published his first essay, Nature in 1836. After writing this essay Emerson gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence.
Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed

Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed

Jonathan Aitken

... Wendell Colson, Jr., Jonathan Moore, Charles H. Morin, William Saltonstall, Jr., Evelyn Slater, Don Whitehead Source ... Road to the White House Interviews: Charles W. Colson, Chris Colson, Emily Colson, Patty Colson, Wendell Colson, (r .
A Call to Prayer

A Call to Prayer

J. C. Ryle

John Charles Ryle (1816-1900), was an Anglican bishop of Liverpool and supporter of Evangelicalism. He is best known today for sermons like The Cross: A Call to the Fundamentals of Religion and A Call to Prayer.
Yoga for You

Yoga for You

Claude Bragdon

From mastering the art of concentration to finding new depth in sexuality, this is a frank, perceptive call to rethink how we live our lives in the modern world.
Teaching and Researching Computer-assisted Language Learning

Teaching and Researching Computer-assisted Language Learning

Ken Beatty

This book offers teachers and researchers a better understanding of CALL through: A comprehensive overview of CALL Step-by-step instructions on conducting research projects in CALL Extensive resources in the form of contacts, websites and ...
Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental ...

Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental ...

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Before Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold, there was the horticulturalist and botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954). For Wendell Berry, Bailey was a revelation, a symbol of the nature-minded agrarianism Berry himself popularized.
The Frank Book:

The Frank Book:

Jim Woodring

The Frank Book also features an introduction by one of Frank’s biggest fans (himself a Frank, or almost): Francis Ford Coppola.
The Magnificent 12: The Call

The Magnificent 12: The Call

Michael Grant

Will he answer the call? A laugh-out-loud story filled with excitement and magic, The Magnificent Twelve: The Call is the first book in bestselling author Michael Grant’s hilarious new fantasy adventure series.
The families of Benjamin (1816-1903) [and] Margaret Evans ...

The families of Benjamin (1816-1903) [and] Margaret Evans ...

David Wendell Hughes

... Lauren Philander Da -son, Marcia Ann Deb ruin, Ellen D^Camp, Frank Hewitt DoCamp, James Merritt DeCamp, Mary Helen DeCamp, Merritt DeCamp, Raquel Marie DpCamp, Stephen Mark DeCamp, Thomas Henry Deeg, Virginia Davey, ...

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