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Gandydancers, The by Bill Talbitzer Soft Cover
Gandydancers, The by Bill Talbitzer Soft Cover
The Gandydancers
Bill Talbitzer
Soft Cover
48 Pages
Copyright 1967, July
Contents
An Adventure in Locomotion 5
The Final Survey 8
The Eager Witness10
Wrong Way Persich13
The Rise and Fall of Chilcoot14
The Opening of the Pathway18
Shadow of Revenge22
Justice and Ingraham28
The Frugal Suitor31
A Lien on Leonardo35
Good News for Antonio{41
The Battle of Concow 43
Love Will Find a Way45
Line Illustrations by Sal Casa, Orland, Calif.
This is not intended to be a history of the Western Pacific Railroad. It is, instead, a collection of stories about the Gandydancers, the men who blasted the rock, graded the roadbed, drilled the tunnels and laid the steel to open a new artery of rail transportation to the East.
The Gandydancer was a man with callouses on his hands and sweat on his brow. He got his peculiar name from the rhythmic, dancelike movements with which he accompanied the labor of forcing the ballast under the crossties that would hold the ribbon of steel which laced the nation east and west.
While other men provided the capital and the technical engineering skills that the huge project required, the Gandydancers contributed the bone and the sinew that got the job done. Their tortuous probing of the canyons and their agonizing traversing of the high deserts, was accomplished with a grimness of purpose which guaranteed the success of the undertaking.
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