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To the ramparts of infinity : Colonel W.C. Falkner and the Ripley Railroad /

"Before William Faulkner, there was Colonel William C. Falkner (1825-1889), the great-grandfather of the prominent and well-known Mississippi writer. The first biography of Falkner was a dissertation by the late Donald Duclos, which was completed in 1961, and while Faulkner scholars have briefl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elliott, Jack D., Jr., 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Settling the land: Cumberland Gap and beyond
  • Arrival in Mississippi
  • Things that go bump in the night: the McCannon Affair
  • Mexico: going to see the elephant
  • The Hindman feud
  • Building railroads
  • And history shall never forget you: the war, part 1
  • Belt of desolation: the war, part 2
  • Reconstruction and rebuilding
  • The railroad to Ripley
  • The railroad plods along
  • Novelist and world traveler
  • And beyond that: the railroad revived
  • The shooting
  • Aftermath: the later years of the railroad.