History of Corporal Fess WhitakerStandard printing Company, incorporated, 1918 - 152 страница 18 years a miner, 9 years on the railroad, 6 years a soldier, and 5 years a politician. This is the life of Corporal Fess Whitaker. Whitaker spent most of his life in the Kentucky Mountains, with stints in Virginia as a coal miner, in Texas with the Fort Worth & Denver Railroad, and abroad as a soldier. He includes a good deal of pioneer history and reminiscences of old timers, including those of Uncle Wesley Banks, the "Bugger Man" schoolmaster. |
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... engine to it and I heard the engine blow two long whistles and about that time a man stuck a big pistol right in my face and told me to get out of there and to get out d ― n quick . I bounced the ground in a hurry and begging and roll ...
... engine to it and I heard the engine blow two long whistles and about that time a man stuck a big pistol right in my face and told me to get out of there and to get out d ― n quick . I bounced the ground in a hurry and begging and roll ...
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... engine was running up and down through the yards and the old bells ringing and on the other side was an old coralle and every once in awhile you could hear an old mule blowing his whistle sounding just like " How are you , Fess ? " On ...
... engine was running up and down through the yards and the old bells ringing and on the other side was an old coralle and every once in awhile you could hear an old mule blowing his whistle sounding just like " How are you , Fess ? " On ...
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... engine for Uncle Johnnie . There had been a wreck up at Midland and the fireman had been taken off of the switch engine and sent to help bring in the wrecked train . So I got on the switch engine one day and Mr. Davis got mad at me ...
... engine for Uncle Johnnie . There had been a wreck up at Midland and the fireman had been taken off of the switch engine and sent to help bring in the wrecked train . So I got on the switch engine one day and Mr. Davis got mad at me ...
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... engine and I heard him say , " There goes that d- — r- I had my gun on me and as I went back to where I was working he struck at me with a monkey wrench . Then the shooting began . I put everyone out of the roundhouse . Billie Lee ...
... engine and I heard him say , " There goes that d- — r- I had my gun on me and as I went back to where I was working he struck at me with a monkey wrench . Then the shooting began . I put everyone out of the roundhouse . Billie Lee ...
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... engine and was helping the flagman and conductor look for me . They were all highballing the old Hog Head and got away from me , so I started out walking after the train and in about half an hour I walked into Wichita Falls , Texas . I ...
... engine and was helping the flagman and conductor look for me . They were all highballing the old Hog Head and got away from me , so I started out walking after the train and in about half an hour I walked into Wichita Falls , Texas . I ...
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