Alabama Railroads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alabama Railroads write by Wayne Cline. This book was released on 2024-05-15. Alabama Railroads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive, illustrated history of Alabama's railroad system
Alabama Railroads
Alabama Railroads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alabama Railroads write by Wayne Cline. This book was released on 1997-01-30. Alabama Railroads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every section of the American frontier.
Logging Railroads of Alabama
Logging Railroads of Alabama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Logging Railroads of Alabama write by Thomas Lawson (Jr.). This book was released on 1996. Logging Railroads of Alabama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Railroads of the Confederacy
The Railroads of the Confederacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Railroads of the Confederacy write by Robert C. Black III. This book was released on 2018-08-25. The Railroads of the Confederacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war. Robert Black presents a complex and fascinating tale, with the railroads of the American South playing the part of tragic hero in the Civil War: at first vigorous though immature; then overloaded, driven unmercifully, starved for iron; and eventually worn out--struggling on to inevitable destruction in the wake of Sherman's army, carrying the Confederacy down with them. With maps of all the Confederate railroads and contemporary photographs and facsimiles of such documents as railroad tickets, timetables, and soldiers' passes, the book will captivate railroad enthusiasts as well as readers interested in the Civil War.
The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill
The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill write by Larry L. Massey. This book was released on 2015-09-11. The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over a year, Railroad Bill eluded sheriffs, private detectives hired by the L&N line, and bounty hunters who traveled across the country to match guns with the legendary desperado. The African American outlaw was wanted on multiple charges of robbery and murder, and rumor had it that he stole from the rich to give to the poor. He terrorized busy train lines from east of Mobile to the Florida Panhandle, but as soon as the lawmen got close, he disappeared into the bayous and pine forests--until one day his luck ran out, and he was gunned down inside a general store in Atmore, Alabama. Little is known about Railroad Bill before his infamy--not his real name or his origins. His first recorded crime, carrying a repeating rifle without a license, led him into a gunfight with a deputy and made him a wanted man throughout Florida in 1894. His most celebrated escape--a five-day foot chase with scores of men and several bloodhounds--led to tales of Railroad's supernatural ability to transmogrify into an animal or inanimate object at will. As his crimes progressed from robbing boxcars to wounding trainmen to murdering sheriffs, more and more reward money was offered for his capture--dead or alive. Today, Railroad Bill is the subject of many folk songs popularized by singers such as Paul McCartney, Taj Mahal, Gillian Welch, and Ramblin' Jack Elliot. But who was he? Where did he come from? What events led to his murderous spree? And why did some view him as a hero? In Railroad Bill, Larry Massey separates fact from myth and teases out elusive truths from tall tales to ultimately reveal the man behind the bandit's mask.
