This valuable addition to the G.I. series is an illustrated guide to America's armored forces from the use of prototypes tanks sputtering their way forward in 1918, to the complex technology of Operation Desert Storm. With detailed commentary by John P. Longellier, this book demonstrates just why these lethal troops were known as 'Hell on Wheels'.
Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming.
Others are in beat-up Ford Econoline vans, playing in tiny clubs to no one. They all have stories about their tours. Some are funny...some are nightmares. This is a compilation of some of those stories.
On May 24, 1911, one of the most notorious murders in Denver's history occurred. The riveting tale involves high society, adultery, drugs, multiple murder, and more, all set in Denver's grand old hotel, the Brown Palace.
Like Howard a few years prior, Boyer was certain he could win RAAM thanks to his background in road racing, and he trashed ultracyclists ... So Boyer's challenge was an irresistible television moment, and again ABC televised the race.
"Bill Hayes' Hell on Wheels is an illustrated history to many motorcycle clubs' histories, including the stories, slogans, insignias, characters, and conflicts that made each club what it is today"--
When a King loves He loves hard CADE I've loved her since we were five years old. We grew up side by side. Two kids tied together by the Kings of Mayhem Motorcycle Club. But I broke us. I broke her. So, she fled.
Later in the story, she meets a surveyor for the railroad who offers her a different life. Will she be able to leave behind what she has seen and experienced in the Hell on Wheels camps? Find out in this entertaining story.
An imperious princess, an arrogant mercenary, a marriage of convenience, and one hell of a roller derby bout.
The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years — exactly half the time stipulated in the contract.
When I was married to Donovan , they homesteaded in a valley that Donovan considered his own . I met the boys on the road to town one day Thaddeus and Earl . " “ Think Angus is telling the truth ? ” Stillman asked .