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| Gandydancer's Children: A Railroad Memoir |
| By : Frank Wendell Call |
The late Frank Wendell Call is very much alive in these pages as he relates the fascinating tale of the rich, adventuresome existence he lived as a child in the Nevada desert along the Southern Pacific railroad line. In November 1928, Frank E. Call, a successful salesman, moved his young family from a comfortable home in Ogden, Utah, to a tiny two-room shanty in an isolated railroad station in northeastern Nevada. He went to work as a "gandydancer," a track laborer, and planned to become a section foreman. The first part of Frank's plan worked very well, but, the stock market crash in October 1929 and the Great Depression that followed upset his timetable....
Publisher: University of Nevada Press List Price: 16.95 Customer Rating: 4.21 / 5.0 
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