Gilbert A. Lathrop
Autor/a de Rio Grande Glory Days
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Gilbert A. Lathrop
Mystery Rides the Rails 8 exemplars
Little Engines and Big Men 2 exemplars
Rio Grande Glory Days 2 exemplars
Whispering Rail 1 exemplars
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 10
- Membres
- 54
- Popularitat
- #299,230
- Valoració
- 5.0
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 3
Lathrop lived his first years in a boxcar converted into a home in Crested Butte, Colorado. His father was an engineer on Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge as was his uncle. When Gilbert came of age in 1913 he joined them in their work as an engine watchman in the 10 stall roundhouse at Gunnison, was promoted to brakeman in 1917 and to conductor in 1924. In 1928 he quit the narrow gauge and went to work for the Western Pacific Railroad as an engine foreman and was working in that capacity at the time he wrote this book (1954).
The author's objective in writing this book “[was] to acquaint you with the men and women who worked and lived along these narrow-gauge lines.” He accomplishes this by focusing on the lives of two men – his father and his uncle. Between them they worked on several of the narrow gauge and standard gauge railroads in Colorado – Denver and Rio Grande, Florence and Cripple Creek, and Colorado Midland. His father’s stories of the Denver and Rio Grande and his uncle’s stories about the Florence and Cripple Creek are written as they were told to Gilbert. His uncle’s stories about the Colorado Midland are, with a little editing on Gilbert’s part, as he set them down in his own hand.
Lathrop’s writing style is very engaging and his word pictures and descriptions of the daily life of narrow gauge railroading hold the readers interest. I think Little Engines and Big Men is a well written book and, should you be at all curious about an interesting chapter in U.S. and Colorado history, worth adding to your TBR book collection. (Text Length - 326 pages, Total Length - 326 pages)… (més)