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The Railroader's Wife

- Letters from the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Af: Jane Stevenson, Bernice Medbury Martin Engelsk Paperback

The Railroader's Wife

- Letters from the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Af: Jane Stevenson, Bernice Medbury Martin Engelsk Paperback
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The story of the railway has never been told in such a charming voice as in these letters by Bernice Medbury Martin. Bernice Medbury married railroader Leslie Martin in 1912 and arrived later that year in Prince Rupert at the height of rock blasting and railroad building. Lonely for her family in Wisconsin, Bernice wrote frequent letters home in which she described in striking detail the machinery and mudslides, the weather and the wilderness, the local characters and the outrageous cost of supplies. She wrote of her frustration at the slow pace of the railway work and her happiness at an invitation to a social event many miles away. She lived in a tent at Kitselas, a hotel in Hazelton, a shack in the Bulkley Valley and a hand-hewn log cabin at Decker Lake. Bernice''s letters span the two final years of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway track building and are neatly woven together by Jane Stevenson''s well-researched narration. A stunning collection of photographs illustrates the enormous task of constructing a railway along the Skeena River, through the Bulkley Valley and on to Burns Lake. Bernice travelled to a land her friends and family could not imagine, where she experienced the challenges and joys of the Canadian western frontier and witnessed the construction of the truly "Grand" Trunk Pacific Railway, until the last spike was driven near her home early in the spring of 1914.
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The story of the railway has never been told in such a charming voice as in these letters by Bernice Medbury Martin. Bernice Medbury married railroader Leslie Martin in 1912 and arrived later that year in Prince Rupert at the height of rock blasting and railroad building. Lonely for her family in Wisconsin, Bernice wrote frequent letters home in which she described in striking detail the machinery and mudslides, the weather and the wilderness, the local characters and the outrageous cost of supplies. She wrote of her frustration at the slow pace of the railway work and her happiness at an invitation to a social event many miles away. She lived in a tent at Kitselas, a hotel in Hazelton, a shack in the Bulkley Valley and a hand-hewn log cabin at Decker Lake. Bernice''s letters span the two final years of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway track building and are neatly woven together by Jane Stevenson''s well-researched narration. A stunning collection of photographs illustrates the enormous task of constructing a railway along the Skeena River, through the Bulkley Valley and on to Burns Lake. Bernice travelled to a land her friends and family could not imagine, where she experienced the challenges and joys of the Canadian western frontier and witnessed the construction of the truly "Grand" Trunk Pacific Railway, until the last spike was driven near her home early in the spring of 1914.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 200
ISBN-13: 9781894759434
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1894759435
Kategori: Amerikansk historie
Udg. Dato: 1 apr 2010
Længde: 12mm
Bredde: 179mm
Højde: 201mm
Forlag: Caitlin Press
Oplagsdato: 1 apr 2010
Forfatter(e): Jane Stevenson, Bernice Medbury Martin
Forfatter(e) Jane Stevenson, Bernice Medbury Martin

Kategori Amerikansk historie

ISBN-13 9781894759434

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 200

Udgave

Længde 12mm

Bredde 179mm

Højde 201mm

Udg. Dato 1 apr 2010

Oplagsdato 1 apr 2010

Forlag Caitlin Press

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