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Excerpt from Robert Kimberly Mrs. Charles Kimberly - Imogene - gave it this year. Last year I gave it. You would have seen everybody, especially the Sea Ridge people. Frit zie, dear i Dolly paused to stay a slender young woman who was passing. Miss Venable, she explained, still speaking to Alice, is our favorite cousin and will make you acquainted with every one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare an...

Excerpt from The Strategy of Great Railroads Busied with its transportation concerns, the house saw the earliest alignment of those political movements in the United States that resulted in the most stupendous civil con¿ict Of modern times. They stuck to their ferryboats and their junk rails when Beecher was the pulpit and Greeley and Bennett and Raymond were the press Of this country. While still active in their busi ness they have seen the ...

Excerpt from The Close of the Day The Sunday evening gatherings that be came at one time so popular among a class of Chicago bachelors may be said almost to owe their origin to the small companies first assembled by George Durant in the quarters he occupied for so many years in Michigan Avenue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a r...

Excerpt from Daughter of a Magnate Ahead, the sun was sinking into the foot hills and wherever the eye could reach to the hori zon barren wastes lay riotously green under the golden blaze. The river, swollen everywhere out of its banks, spread in a broad and placid ¿ood of yellow over the bottoms, and a hundred shal low lakes studded with willowed islands marked its wandering course to the south and east. The clear, far air of the mountains, ...

Excerpt from Merrilie DawesThe travelling arrangements of the two, with their added years and growing requirements of comfort, had gradually become extended to a gen erous scale and usually included two cars. One of these provided a dining-room and its accessory equipment, and, in addition to a number of sleep ing-compartments, a business ofiice. The other afi'orded a reception-roorn arranged for Mrs. Hamersley with a series of compartments eu...

Excerpt from Whispering SmithWith the box cars piled forty feet high on the track, the conductor was too old a hand to begin a controversy. Our time's fast, was all he said.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...

Excerpt from Nan of Music Mountain The warm sun streaming through the windows of the private ofice of the division superintendent at Sleepy Cat, a railroad town lying almost within gunshot of the great continental divide, would easily have accounted for the cordial per spiration that illumined Lefever's forehead. Not that a perspiration is easily achieved in the high country, it isn't. None, indeed, but a physical giant, which Lefever was, co...

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There were two Whispering Smiths, one the fictional railroad detective in Frank Hamilton Spearman's novel, and the other a historic westerner whose real name was James L. Smith. The fictional character was the hero in this best-selling novel of 1906, and the book's popularity made it the prototype for Western fiction. Spearman became fascinated by railroad lore through his contacts with the Union Pacific while a Nebraska banker. He had previou...

Frank Hamilton Spearman (1859-1937) was an American author. He was known for his books in the Western fiction genre and especially for his fiction and non-fiction works on the topic of railroads. Although he wrote prolifically about railroads, his actual career was that of a bank president in McCook, Nebraska and did not work for a railroad. Spearman was also a devout Roman Catholic convert and held political views best described as protoliber...

Frank Hamilton Spearman (1859-1937) was an American author. He was known for his books in the Western fiction genre and especially for his fiction and non-fiction works on the topic of railroads. Although he wrote prolifically about railroads, his actual career was that of a bank president in McCook, Nebraska and did not work for a railroad. Spearman was also a devout Roman Catholic convert and held political views best described as proto-libe...

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: McClure Co. in 19...

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