Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Youth -- Trackside childhood -- From newsboy to roundhouse : starting to work -- Fireman I -- Learning to fire -- Life along the rails -- My mentor on the road -- Fireman II -- At the rat hole flashing the door -- Old heads, rails, and boomers -- Railroad hazards and wrecks -- Engineer -- Engineer on the Rio Grande -- Running the Utah trains -- Life on the Utah Railway |
Summary |
In 1917, Gilbert Gould achieved his dream to be an engineer, and began running engines for the Denver & Rio Grande and later for the Utah Railway. He was a natural storyteller, and his recollections are entertaining and historically rewarding |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Gould, William John Gilbert, 1888-1961.
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SUBJECT |
Gould, William John Gilbert, 1888-1961
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Gould, William John Gilbert, 1888-1961 fast |
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Mountain railroads -- Utah -- History
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Mountain railroads -- Utah -- Employees -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- History.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Mountain railroads
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Mountain railroads -- Employees
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Utah
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Electronic books
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Gould, William R., 1919-2006.
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LC no. |
95004427 |
ISBN |
9780874213478 |
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0874213479 |
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0585024898 |
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9780585024899 |
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087421193X |
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9780874211931 |
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9780874211979 |
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0874211972 |
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