Special Report of a Reconnoissance of the Route for the Northern Pacific Railroad Between Lake Superior and Puget Sound, Via the Columbia River, Made in 1869

Special Report of a Reconnoissance of the Route for the Northern Pacific Railroad Between Lake Superior and Puget Sound, Via the Columbia River, Made in 1869
Author: William Milnor Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1869
Genre: Northwestern States
ISBN:

A report by W. Milnor Roberts, a U.S. civil engineer, who went by rail to San Francisco, then overland to Portland, then to Walla Walla, where his team was outfitted for a horseback expedition into Idaho Territory, Lake Pend d'Oreille, Montana Territory, along the Flathead River, up to Jocko Valley, Missoula, Deer Lodge City, the Bozeman Divide, Yellowstone Valley, Mullan's Pass, and Helena. Including discussion of a tunnel on the Blackfoot and a summation of probable cost of the railroad, with itemization by divisions, buildings, lands, snows, grades, etc.

Railway Economics

Railway Economics
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Publisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1912
Genre: Cataloging, Cooperative
ISBN:

Pacific Railways and Nationalism in the Canadian-American Northwest, 1845-1873

Pacific Railways and Nationalism in the Canadian-American Northwest, 1845-1873
Author: Leonard Bertram Irwin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512817139

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.