Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow, Railroads in the West by Dee Brown & Highball A Pageant of Trains by Lucius Beebe Vintage Train Books

Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow, Railroads in the West by Dee Brown & Highball A Pageant of Trains by Lucius Beebe Vintage Train Books

—Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West by Dee Brown —1945 Original Dust Jacket, Illustrated. <Condition is Good+ as Pictured> (normal wear, some markings, toning)
Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers in Missouri and California were separated by a vast landscape that dwarfed and isolated them, conquerable only by “the demonic power of the Iron Horse and its bands of iron track.” Although the building of the great railroad is commonly known as a story of romance, adventure, and progress, it also has a dark side, as profiteers decimated American Indian tribes, exploited workers, and destroyed ecosystems. Despite this, by the turn of the twentieth century, five major railroads would span the continent. This account vividly illustrates the railroad builders’ breathtaking skill, ambition, and ingenuity. . Brown compellingly tells a high-stakes tale, an exhilarating history that still holds lessons for today.


—Highball: A Pageant of Trains by Lucius Beebe — 1977 First Edition with Original Dust Jacket, Illustrated.
<Condition is Good as Pictured> (normal wear, some markings, visible edge-wear,toning)
This volume is a companion to the author’s earlier outstanding collection of railroad photographs and legend, High Iron, Highliners, and Trains in Transition. It is a work where pictures and text fuse together into a unified whole, each one clarifying and adding dimension to the other.




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