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Hounds of the Road A History of the Greyhound Bus Company Carlton Jackson Popular Press The bus system that came to be known as the Greyhound Bus Company was founded by Carl Eric Wickman, an enterprising Swede of Hibbing, Minnesota. The first bus was a seven-passenger Hupmobile touring car that was used to transport miners across the Mesaba Iron Range to and from work. Wickman was soon joined by another Swede, Andrew Anderson, and they began operating in earnest the route from a saloon in Hibbing to the fire-hall in Alice. From this lowly beginning grew the Greyhound Corporation, a multi-million dollar company which, through the years, has owned everything from a chain of hamburger restaurants to a soap company. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

1984 LC: 83-072887 HE 264 pp.   6 x 9 20 b/w photos ISBN-10: 0-87972-271-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-271-5 Paper $16.95 t (The cloth edition, ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-270-8, is out of print). Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the bulleted lines above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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