1967 "The Gandydancers" by Bill Talbitzer 1st Edition Paperback TH8
1967 "The Gandydancers" by Bill Talbitzer 1st Edition Paperback TH8
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1967 "The Gandydancers" by Bill Talbitzer 1st Edition Paperback TH8
This is not intended to be a history of the Western Pacific Rail. road. It is, instead, a collection of stoties 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 thythmic, 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
1967 "The Gandydancers" by Bill Talbitzer 1st Edition Paperback TH8
This is not intended to be a history of the Western Pacific Rail. road. It is, instead, a collection of stoties 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 thythmic, 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
