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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Description
McPhee's books are about real people in real places. Over the past eight years, McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. This is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. He attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"There was a new freighting company in Nebraska City. Ajax Overland, owned by Trace Bovard, seemed to be gradually drawing a noose around the neck of the freighting business, reaching out to absorb all the other companies, trying to buy them out, trying to force them out. Bovard had a plan. He could underbid contracts and overpay teamsters until his was the only company left. Then he could make the money back quickly by cutting wages and raising prices...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023, 1951
Description
"Former Texas Ranger Clay Orde was looking for a man. There was only one thing on his mind -- revenge. He'd been following a cold trail from Oregon to Nevada, but his experience as a ranger and what he had learned about Silver Jack Devaney assured him that he was going in the right direction. Fate intervenes when he thwarts a freight train robbery and becomes acquainted with Milly Ewell. Milly Ewell runs a mule freighting business she inherited when...
4) Shadow range
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023, 1947.
Description
"There were hard times in Texas in 1875. It seemed to the ranchmen that the whole world had stopped eating Texas beef -- and to add to their troubles, a gang of rustlers was killing cattle at night and skinning them on the spot, taking away the only part that would bring cash on the market. To the ranchers aid comes broad-shouldered Ben Anthony, with his slow, lazy smile. His lovely girl, Bess, has gotten herself engaged to dubious Harry Odell, who...
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