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Always a Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy Rescue Denver Rio Grande RR HC Bagley
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Good condition, address label on inside cover”
- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780874217155
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
ISBN-10
0874217156
ISBN-13
9780874217155
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65767266
Product Key Features
Book Title
Always a Cowboy : Judge Wilson Mccarthy and the Rescue of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Railroads / History, General, Historical
Genre
Transportation, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-019097
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
Eighth Grade
Dewey Decimal
385.092 B
Table Of Content
ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Happy, Optimistic, and Good Company: Charles McCarthy Goes WestChapter Two: A Prisoner for Conscience Sake: The Pen, the Railroad, and the Lord's VineyardChapter Three: We Have Always Been Sweethearts: Home on the Canadian RangeChapter Four: No Reversals: The Rapid Rise of Judge McCarthyChapter Five: No Fairy Godmother: The Reconstruction Finance CorporationChapter Six: The Tug of the West: A California InterludeChapter Seven: Dangerous & Rapidly Getting Worse: How to Ruin a Railroad, or the Checkered History of the Denver & Rio Grande WesternChapter Eight: Like a Drunken Gandy Dancer: Saving the Denver & Rio Grande WesternChapter Nine: The Great Arsenal: The War to Save DemocracyChapter Ten: Rocky Mountain Empire: The Cowboy JudgeChapter Eleven: A Western Railroad Operated by Western Men: The Rio Grande RedeemedChapter Twelve: Divers Projects of Imperial Proportions: The Judge and HistoryAfterword. A Missed Opportunity: Judge McCarthy and an Alternate Vision of America's FutureAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
Life: A Guide is about making sense of the different stages of our lives - and understanding the ups and downs of each. It is about the challenges we face at each point, the potentials we may have, and the opportunities that exist to help us live a good life and create the resilience we will require. Andrew Fuller considers life in 7-year slices and presents ideas about what is needed at each stage to have great outcomes. Andrew Fuller writes: 'I have been developing my ideas for many years for a book on how to live a resilient life. In that time, I have spoken to thousands of people about their views on what is required at each stage of growth - what are the challenges, how we might get through them. I've asked them the question: "What does it take at each stage to live a good life?"' 'I'm intrigued by how we grow and mature. I think this began with my fascination with that old 'scientific' claim that every cell in our body replaces itself every seven years. That concept, as interesting to me as it was, turned out not to be biologically true. However, the more I looked at the great spiritual and religious traditions, and the more I talked to people about their lives, there did seem to be such a pattern to our personal development, our ageing and our cycles of growth. It's almost as if every seven years or so we get a chance to sit back and reorient, reconsider, reprioritise our lives. 'In Life: A Guide, I ask people to consider some of the different stages of life. For example, one 7-year period that's full of challenge for many is from 42 to 49. I call it "Holding the tiger by the tail". It's often a time that brings great growth and enterprise. Women can surge during this period, but it can also be a time of great exhaustion. It's almost as if you're holding a tiger and you've got it by the tail, and you've got it tamed ... but only just! You can either erode your own spirit by being absolutely exhausted or you can find ways to nourish yourself. 'While people may read this book and identify bits where they'll say, "No, that's not true for me", that doesn't worry me so much, because they might consider, "Okay, where do I sit in relation to that? If I disagree with that, what's my life like?"., Cowboy, judge, federal official, then business executive, Wilson McCarthy mirrored change and growth in the twentieth-century West. Leading the Denver & Rio Grande back from the brink saved a vital link in the national transportation system. The D&RGW ran over and through the scenic Rockies, developing mineral resources, fighting corporate wars, and helping build communities. The Depression brought it to its knees. Accepting federal assignment to save the line, McCarthy turned it into a paragon of mid-century railroading, represented by the streamlined, Vista-Domed California Zephyr , although success hauling freight was of more economic importance. Prior to that, McCarthy's life had taken him from driving livestock in Canada to trying to drive the national economy as a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the first line of federal attack on the Depression. Always a Cowboy positions McCarthy's story in a rich historical panorama.. Will Bagley is the author of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
LC Classification Number
KF373
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