Railwayman's Son - A Plains Family Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Professor emeritus of history and American studies at Amherst College, Hugh Hawkins is the author of numerous works, including Pioneer: A History of the Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Plainfield, Massachusetts. Klappentext Hugh Hawkins was seven years old when his father's job with the Rock Island Rail-road forced his family to relocate to far western Kansas. Before he turned twelve the family had lived in three "Rock Island towns": Herington, Kansas; Goodland, Kansas; and finally EI Reno, Oklahoma. Such was the life of a railwayman's son during the Great Depression. In this warm and thoughtful memoir, Hawkins paints a portrait of a middle-class family's traditions and values in the heartland of the 1930s and 1940s. Zusammenfassung Hugh Hawkins was seven years old when his fathers job with the Rock Island Railroad forced his family to relocate to far western Kansas. This memoir paints a portrait of a middle-class family's traditions and values in the heartland of the 1930s and 1940s.

Product details

• Authors: H. Roger Grant, H.Roger Grant, Hugh Hawkins
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2006
• EAN: 9780896725577
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-557-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Plains Histories; Plains Histories Series; Plains Histories; Plains Histories Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies