Q,A,&P Hardbound book?

Discussion in 'Memorabilia' started by Joseph Toth, Mar 29, 2012.

  1. Joseph Toth

    Joseph Toth Member

    Shortly after my parents moved from Dallas to Tampa I stopped in to visit the Frisco off-line traffic office. The agent was Ed Bunch and he had a small ca. 5X6 inch hardback book on the QA&P. I tried to talk him out of it to no avail. I wish I had at least written down the author´s name and publisher since I don´t remember anything about it.

    I have found Ed again and he is retired, 88, and lives in the Tampa area. He no longer has the little book. Anyone know anything about it? Don Hofsommer´s book is a great read and belongs in every Frisco library but the little blue covered Quannah book would still be nice in a collection.

    Joe Toth
     
  2. FriscoCharlie

    FriscoCharlie Administrator Staff Member Administrator Frisco.org Supporter

    I don't know but I wish you luck in finding out as I would be interested as well.

    Charlie
     
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  4. Joseph Toth

    Joseph Toth Member

    I last saw the book 40 years ago (1962) so don´t remember much about it. Sounds like the little book could be the one I remember in the Tampa off-line traffic office though. Ed also had a copy of the book by S. Kip Farrington, Jr., "Railroading the Modern Way" by S. Kip Farrington, Jr. which had a chapter on Frisco operations.

    Along with Lucius Beebe, Farrington led the way with railroad related books in the 1940s. How times have changed with a million billion zillion railroad books to choose from today. Still need more on the Frisco though!

    Joe Toth
     
  5. I just took a look at a copy of Charles Sommer's "Quanah Parker, last chief of the Comanches" in a university library. The copy I saw was published in 1945. It's a slim little book of 48 pages, about six inches tall and three inches wide, bound in pale gray cardboard covers (which might appear pale blue in certain lights.) The book is mostly about Quanah Parker, with occasional reference to the QA&P. Unfortunately, I don't have a digital camera with me, or I could post a snapshot of the cover to help determine if this is the book you remember.

    Other than that and Don Hofsommer's book which has been mentioned previously, I know of only two other books about the QA&P. Neither is widely available.

    In 1990, Charles C. Britton published a book titled "The Quanah Route : a Texas short line railroad". The publisher was Joed Books of Fort Collins, Colorado, and the book is about 100 pages. About 16 libraries have copies, mostly in Texas. It can probably be borrowed via interlibrary loan.

    In 1967, a Midwestern University graduate student named Laura Lynn Wyman wrote a 92-page master's thesis entitled "The Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway". It does not appear to have been commercially published,but copies are held by three academic libraries in Texas (Midwestern State U., Texas Tech, and Wayland Baptist College).

    Bradley A. Scott
     
  6. Joseph Toth

    Joseph Toth Member

    All said and done, the book was in a file cabinet and of course I am going on a 40 year old memory. I am sure the book I saw is the book in question.

    Don Hofsommer´s book remains THE authority on the QA&P of course.

    Appreciate the feedback on my question. Looks like the mystery is solved! Thanks too for the additional information on published works on the Quanah Route. Now, what about the Alabama, Tennesee & Northern, the "Anytime At Night"...quite a bit of information and pix on Google but I know of no published material.

    Joe Toth
     

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