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RIDING THE    RAILS:Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression

          INDEX

          Main

          National Heritage Museum

          Online Exhibition

          RIDING THE RAILS

          The Background

          What Life Was Like During The Great Depression

         How Young Americans Survived The Hard Times

          HOBO LETTERS

          How A Runaway Boy Lived The Hobo Life

          A Boy Says Goodbye To His Mom and Hits the Road

          When A Young Couple Found Love In Hard Times

          Three Boys Who Ran Away on Mother's Day

          Railroad Bulls Put Squeeze on 12-year-old Hobo

          When 20 cents an hour Was A Very Good Wage

          A Night of Terror in the Deep South

          The Night A Young Hobo Died on the Rails

          A Young Woman on the Road in the Great Depression

          A Boy's Christmas in Montana during the Depression

          REVIEWS

          Main          

          INTERVIEW

          Riding the Rails

         ABOUT THE WRITER

         Errol Lincoln Uys

          RIDING THE RAILS

          The Documentary

          HOBO WEB SITES

          Links

          A GREAT DEPRESSION BOOKSHELF

         

          Contact


BRAZIL

        

         KINDLE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE

        

          FRONT PAGE

         Author's Note

         REVIEWS

         Main

         Jornal do Brasil

         L'Express

         Figaro

        READERS' COMMENTS

        Main

        APPRECIATION

         Professor Wilson Martins

       

        EXCERPTS

         The Paraguayan War

         Part I

         Part II

         Part III

         A Brazilian Boy's Walk to Slavery

        INTERVIEW

        Brazil

        BRAZILIAN WEB SITES

        Links

        BRAZILIAN BOOKS FOR THE THOUGHTFUL TRAVELER

        Contact


         BRAZIL

   THE MAKING OF A NOVEL

         Index

         The Outline

         The Research

         The Journey, Part I

         The Journey, Part II

         The Journey, Part III

         The Writing

         Notes and Manuscript Pages

 

        QUICK GUIDE TO ARCHIVE CONTENTS

    

-- In Search of Brazil - The Writing Of An Epic Novel

-- How Errol Lincoln Uys Planned His Novel

-- The Soul of Brazil : A Writer's Quest To    Understand The Brazilians

--- The One-Eyed Carpenter of Salvador, Bahia

--  The Cross Of Brazil

--  Looking For Antonio Conselheiro And The Ghosts Of Canudos

--  A Life Of Humiliation In Brazil

--  Amazon River: Voyage On The River Sea From Belém To Manaus

--  Brazil Travel: By Canoe Into The Heart Of The Forest Cathedral

--Ghost Riders Of The Devil's Railroad In Brazil

-- Brazil - Green Paradise Or Green Hell?

-- Of Masters And Slaves In Modern Brazil

-- A Brazilian Millionaire, A Bowl Of Manioc, And A Blind Violinist

-- The Keys To The Story Of Brazil

-- Writing The Epic Of Brazil - A Step-by-Step Guide

--Brazil - Plotting Notes For The Novel

--Brazil - Original Manuscript For The Novel


       ABOUT THE WRITER

        Errol Lincoln Uys

           Post Newspapers

                Race Act Tragedy

                The Human Beasts

                A Sad Page

                Athlone

                Clive Haupt

            Star Newspaper

                 Is Climate Changing?

                 Doornfontein

                 Bram Fischer

                 Vrededorp

                 1200 Executions

                 Where Race Hate Leads

                 Townsman in the Dongas

                 The People of Johannesburg

            Tommy Ellis

                 Lobengula's Treasure

            Mexico

                 What Michener said


       Contact

  A NOVEL OF AMERICA

       An original online writing project

          Main Page       

         

          BLOG

           The Bridge

       


  WORKING WITH

  JAMES A. MICHENER

         Index

         The Assignment

         The Plotting

         The Research

         The Manuscript

         Afterword

         Assignment Notes

         Plotting Notes

         Research Notes

         Manuscript Notes

 

         QUICK GUIDE TO ARCHIVE CONTENTS

The Secrets Behind The Writing Of The Covenant

A Day At Work With James A. Michener

Lessons In Writing With James A. Michener

What Life Was Like At Reader's Digest In The Great Days

Talking With Michener About Shaka Zulu And His Tribe

The Strange Genesis of James Michener's Novel, The Covenant

Plotting Notes For A James Michener Novel

How A Writer Gets Ideas For A Novel - Inside James Michener's Covenant

Writing The Outline For James Michener's South African Novel

On The Road With Michener In South Africa

Why Did Michener Meet With No Blacks In Apartheid South Africa?

How A James Michener Novel Was Researched

Fixing Fundamental Flaws In A Michener Manuscript

Why James Michener And His Collaborator Argued Violently

Challenging Michener's Vision Of The Afrikaners

How A Boer Girl Helped Michener On The Covenant

Anglo-Boer War - Memories Of A Concentration Camp Survivor

How Black Moses Found The Village Of Heaven In Michener's Covenant

From One Writer To Another - An Ominous Letter From James A. Michener

 

Assignment Notes:

Manuscript Drafts For The Cattle Killing And The Englishman

Plotting Notes:

Original Plot Notes and Outline by Errol Lincoln Uys for The Covenant

Research Notes:

The Promised Land of South Africa - Limitless or Horizonless?

The Trekboers of South Africa

The Voortrekkers of South Africa

Manuscript Notes:

Drafts for The Zulu Mfecane - The Crushing

Drafts for Voortrekkers - Dashing Harry Smith

Drafts for Anglo-Boer War - The Venloo Commando

Uys Plotting Notes For The Puritan - Detleef Van Doorn

Drafts For Moses Nxumalo's Story

Barbara Helly - Thesis On The Covenant

SELECTION OF JAMES MICHENER'S BOOKS


           A Boer Girl's Memories of the South African War

  — Johanna  "Joey" Uys


         THE BOSTON PAGES

OUTLINE

About the Outline

Book One: The Beaver

Book Two: The Shop at the Seven Steps

Book Three: Long Wharf

Book Four: Jacob's Ladder

Book Five: Boston Common

   

          FAMILY TREES

     

          IMAGES

           Images

          MAPS

           Maps

    WORKING NOTES

    RESEARCH LINKS

    TOOLS

   


 PROPOSALS

     

      Mexico, the Novel

      Africa, the Novel