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The first woman to go railroading on the Southern Pacific recounts her journey–the people who work on the trains, the craft of the railroader, the Western landscape that inspired her–providing an elegy to a dying trade<\/p>\n\n

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This classic account of self discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann\u2019s travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer combines travelogue, Wild West adventure, sexual memoir, and closely observed ethnography. A Berkeley Ph.D., Niemann turned her back on academia and set out to master the craft of railroad brakeman, beginning a journey of sexual and subcultural exploration and traveling down a path toward recovery from alcoholism. In honest, clean prose, Niemann treks off the beaten path and into the forgotten places along the rail lines, finding true American characters with colorful pasts?and her true self as well<\/p>\n\n

Genre:<\/strong> Autobiography\/Biography<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Subjects:<\/strong> Business & Economics \/ General<\/a>; Niemann, Linda<\/a>; Women Railroad Employees<\/a>; Women Railroad Employees - Biography. - United States<\/a>; Women Railroad Employees - United States - Biography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first woman to go railroading on the Southern Pacific recounts her journey–the people who work on the trains, the craft of the railroader, the Western landscape that inspired her–providing an elegy to a dying trade — This classic account of self discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann\u2019s travels as an itinerant brakeman … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4320],"tags":[7933,7934,7935,7937,7936],"pub_year":[],"class_list":["post-69681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autobiography-biography","tag-business-economics-general","tag-niemann-linda","tag-women-railroad-employees","tag-women-railroad-employees-biography-united-states","tag-women-railroad-employees-united-states-biography"],"yoast_head":"\nBoomer by Linda Niemann (All 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