Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: The mountain states
Author | : Donald B. Robertson |
Publisher | : Caxton Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald B. Robertson |
Publisher | : Caxton Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Donald B. Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780870043055 |
Author | : Donald B. Robertson |
Publisher | : Caxton Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Railroads are listed alphabetically by state with detailed company descriptions including dates of operation, miles of track, maximum grade, gauge, rail weight, and the histories of thousands of locomotives. With maps and black and white photos. The book also has chapters discussing the development of West, including construction of forts and post offices, and notes on railroad construction in the area (locomotive census, major builders, mileage, fuel consumption, etc.). The information in the book was gleaned from federal and state government data, and newspapers of the period.
Author | : Donald B. Robertson |
Publisher | : Caxton Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Mountain railroads |
ISBN | : 9780870043857 |
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This book includes 368 pages of maps, photographs and technical data on the history of railroading in California. There are detailed reports on dates of operation, mergers, miles of track, maximum grade, gauge and rail weight. It also includes the histories of thousands of locomotives.
Author | : Donald B. Robertson |
Publisher | : Caxton Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780870043666 |
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This 352-page, triple indexed reference book covers nearly 500 names in the two north Pacific coast states. All known common carrier steam powered operations of ten or more miles are included, plus numerous logging companies, electric traction and diesel operations. The account covers their histories from inception until sale or abandonment - or until 1993 if still active. Railroad titles are full and exact.
Author | : Donald B. Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780870043055 |
Author | : Robert E. Riegel |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Account of the railroad conquest of the United States.
Author | : Freeman H. Hubbard |
Publisher | : New York : McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
History, biography, anecdotes and newsworthy events in railroading are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Author | : Lee Schweninger |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803235151 |
Looking over the great prairie in the early 1880s, Nellie Buchanan said, ?I knew I would never be contented until I had a home of our own in the wonderful West.? Some were not so sanguine. Mary Cox described the prairie as ?the most barren, forsaken country that we had ever seen.? Like the others whose stories appear in this book, these women were describing their own thoughts and experiences traveling to and settling in what became Colorado. Sixty-seven of their original, first-person narratives, recounted to Civil Works Administration workers in 1933 and 1934, are gathered for the first time in this book. The First We Can Remember presents richly detailed, vivid, and widely varied accounts by women pioneers during the late nineteenth century. Narratives of white American-born, European, and Native American women contending with very different circumstances and geographical challenges tell what it was like to settle during the rise of the smelting and mining industries or the gold rush era; to farm or ranch for the first time; to struggle with unfamiliar neighbors, food and water shortages, crop failure, or simply the intransigent land and unpredictable weather. Together, these narratives?historically and geographically framed by Lee Schweninger?s detailed introduction?create a vibrant picture of women?s experiences in the pioneering of the American West.