Author: Louis Franklin SwiftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meat industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Yankee of the Yards
Author: Louis Franklin SwiftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meat industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Yankee of the Yards
Author: Louis F. SwiftPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494062033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
The Yankee of the Yards. The Biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift. By L.F. Swift in Collaboration with Arthur Van Vlissingen. [With Plates, Including Portraits.].
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Author: Louis Franklin SWIFTThe Yankee of the Yards
Author: Louis Franklin SwiftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meat industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Yankee of the Yards
Author: Louis F. SwiftPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484807104
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Excerpt from The Yankee of the Yards: The Biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift Heer accident has swept many men to that slight height above their fellows which the world calls fame or attainment or success. At their sides stand others who reached the same place by ceaseless work and native shrewdness. For this reason the life stories of most outstanding men lack interest except to the unimaginative who worship success for its own sake. Accidents which turn out well make dull tales, toiling plodders make still duller. Rare indeed is the man who attains preeminence with the steady, irresistible thrust - who leaves in those who started with him a sense that his progress was inevitable, that one could no more have stopped him than an Alpine glacier or a Sierra cascade. Such a man, to be sure, combines ability and gluttony for work. But to these sober, uninteresting virtues their owner has the good fortune to add being born at a time and place which make his every stroke count for two or ten or ten thousand times the strokes of men who came before or will come after. Every circum stance from his birth to his grave seems calculated to give him a lead over his fellows. Every apparent misfortune turns out to be his lucky chance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Yankee Encyclopedia
Author: Walter LeContePublisher: Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781582616834
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Yankees Century
Author: Glenn StoutPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618085279
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Photographs and essays help chronicle one hundred years of history for the New York Yankees professional baseball team, profiling key players, coaches, and moments in the team's history.
The Yankee Present
Author: Philip Ross ChadwickPublisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973644886
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Thomas Hanner Lyle, like so many other southerners, finds himself embroiled in a war that will change his life forever. As a Confederate soldier, he fights in battle while trying to retain his humanity and not damn his soul. During in-between times, he tries to find the beauty in life beneath the shade of cottonwoods by breezy riverbeds. An incident in battle ushers Thomas from the rank of private to sergeant, but the glory is short-lived as he is soon wounded. He gets help from a woman who reminds him so much of his wife, Jenny. In and out of consciousness, he flashbacks to his safe, happy life in Tennessee and makes it his mission to return home to his beloved—but will war let him go so easily?
Aberdeen-Angus Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen-Angus cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Chicago
Author: Dominic A. PacygaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226644324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.” At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past of his hometown, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industrialists, reformers, and politicians—and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright notorious—animate this book, from Al Capone and Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley and President Barack Obama. But what distinguishes this book from the many others on the subject is its author’s uncommon ability to illuminate the lives of Chicago’s ordinary people. Raised on the city’s South Side and employed for a time in the stockyards, Pacyga gives voice to the city’s steelyard workers and kill floor operators, and maps the neighborhoods distinguished not by Louis Sullivan masterworks, but by bungalows and corner taverns. Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago: A Biography is as big and boisterous as its namesake—and as ambitious as the men and women who built it.