Intercity Bus Lines of the Southwest: A Photographic History (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students) - Hardcover

Jack Rhodes (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0890963746 ISBN 13: 9780890963746

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, 1988

Synopsis

null

About this title

Review

"Buses have been the neglected form of transportation in America. Few except their operators and their customers paid them any mind or attention. Songs were seldom written about them, love was seldom fallen in aboard them, gunmen seldom hijacked them. "But that may be changing. There are signs of new interest in those motorcoaches that ply the roads in search of passengers and express, color and glamour. It's begun with a discovery of its history, with the stories of its pioneers who took old touring cars and their dreams and started bus lines in the early 1900's. It was a hazardous business that required as much in gambling instincts as it did in business sense. "Jack Rhodes has made a significant contribution to that history with this book about the origins of the intercity bus business in Texas and its neighboring states. He tells the stories of the people who started it all. They are the stories that led to the Trailways and the Greyhounds of today. They are stories of visionaries with spirit and grit."--Jim Lehrer

About the Author

For most of his life, Jack Rhodes has cultivated an avocational interest in buses and the business of operating them. He is associate professor and director of forensics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Edition details

• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890963746
• ISBN 13: 9780890963746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 158