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...High School, he became so expert that a Pacific Coast League team offered him a contract. A member of his high-school basketball and swimming teams for three years, he also played football. Instead of going on to college he played baseball with the San Francisco Seals, went to Salt Lake City for a year's seasoning, returned to San Francisco for the season of 1929, when he struck out 159 batters. The New York Yankees hired him in 1930, sent him to St. Paul for one year. In 1931 Gomez won 21 games and lost nine, struck...
...Moffatt Tunnel ("Gateway to Nowhere") and on to the West Coast- two double-header freights loaded with Nebraska corn, Colorado coal, stoves, grits, lumber, hoboes. Instead of going around through Pueblo to the south or Cheyenne to the north, they bored under the Continental Divide, rattled down the Denver & Salt Lake, switched off on the new Dotsero Cutoff to Denver & Rio Grande Western's main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake, six railroad presidents and several thousand rejoicing citizens rode out on a fleet...
...spring of 1914, the year the Alaska Railroad was begun. Frank Adams, John Holmberg and Tom Jensen loaded up with salt pork, coffee and flour at Fort Yukon and went prospecting up the Yukon River. They took Sweet Marie along for company. Folks around Fort Yukon learned that they had made a fairly good strike. Then word came in that the prospectors had fallen to quarreling. Next thing heard was that Tom Jensen had killed Adams, Holmberg and the Schmidt woman and run off with a poke worth some...
...into the icy water. One hundred yards out in the bay, the champagne bottle slipped out of her hand. Three hundred yards out, she caught up with the yacht, grabbed her bottle as it bobbed by, smashed it on the bow at the waterline, spit out a mouthful of salt water, choked "I christen thee Segochet...
...first volume of a trilogy. Gentler in tone than most proletarian novels (perhaps because its scene is patient Sweden), it hints at a rougher sequel. To many a reader who likes highly-seasoned stories, Our Daily Bread will seem insipid fare, but for those who can do without salt it will provide an honest mouthful...