Tag: Lucius Beebe

An Illustrated Checklist of the Railroading and Western Americana Books of Lucius Beebe, Bon Vivant

The following are books on railroading and Western America by Lucius Beebe, or Lucius Beebe and his partner, Charles Clegg. Read Book Patrol's feature, Lucius Beebe: Bon Vivant Book Man.1. High Iron: A Book of Trains. (New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938).2. Highliners: A Railroad Album (New York: Bonanza Books, 1940).3. Trains in Transition (New York: Bonanza Books, 1941).4. Highball: A Pageant of Trains ( New York: Bonanza Books, 1945)5. The Narrow Gauge Railroads of Colorado (Railway & Locomotive Historical Society BulletinNo. 671, August 1946).6. Mixed Train Daily: A Book of Short-Line Railroads. (Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1947).7. Virginia City &...

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“Luscious” Lucius Beebe: Bon Vivant Book Man

“Lucius Beebe, who was larger than life, is dead. The famous author suffered a heart attack shortly after his ritual morning Turkish bath in his Hillsborough winter home yesterday” (obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 4, 1966)."If anything is worth doing it is worth doing in style, and on your own terms, and nobody's Goddamned else's!" - Lucius Beebe.“I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at least in some small measure. Not a Michelangelo, mark you, but perhaps a poor man's Cellini...

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