The Story Of The First Trans Continental Railroad
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| Author | : David Haward Bain |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 1432 |
| Release | : 2000-09-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1101658045 |
After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most transformative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with twin bands of iron, Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectively doubled in size, fought three wars, and began to discover a new national identity. From self--made entrepreneurs such as the Union Pacific's Thomas Durant and era--defining figures such as President Lincoln to the thousands of laborers whose backbreaking work made the railroad possible, this extraordinary narrative summons an astonishing array of voices to give new dimension not only to this epic endeavor but also to the culture, political struggles, and social conflicts of an unforgettable period in American history.
| Author | : Stephen E. Ambrose |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2001-11-06 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780743203173 |
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
| Author | : Manu Karuka |
| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2019-01-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520296648 |
Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.
| Author | : Gordon H. Chang |
| Publisher | : Mariner Books |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1328618579 |
Guangdong -- Gold Mountain -- Central Pacific -- Foothills -- The High Sierra -- The Summit -- The Strike -- Truckee -- The Golden Spike -- Beyond Promontory.
| Author | : William Francis Bailey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 1906 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : John Hoyt Williams |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 1996-01-01 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9780803297890 |
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were officially joined on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, with the driving of a golden spike. This historic ceremony marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Spanning the Sierras and the “Great American Desert,” the tracks connected San Francisco to Council Bluffs, Iowa. A Great and Shining Road is the exciting story of a mammoth feat that called forth entrepreneurial daring, financial wizardry, technological innovation, political courage and chicanery, and the heroism of thousands of laborers.
| Author | : Mary Ann Fraser |
| Publisher | : Square Fish |
| Total Pages | : 81 |
| Release | : 2016-08-02 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1250131243 |
On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is a great adventure story in the history of the American West--the day Charles Crocker staked $10,000 on the crews' ability to lay a world record ten miles of track in a single, Ten Mile Day.
| Author | : Charles Frederick Carter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 1909 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Glenn Willumson |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2023-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520955420 |
The construction of the transcontinental railroad (1865–1869) marked a milestone in United States history, symbolizing both the joining of the country’s two coasts and the taming of its frontier wilderness by modern technology. But it was through the power of images—and especially the photograph—that the railroad attained its iconic status. Iron Muse provides a unique look at the production, distribution, and publication of images of the transcontinental railroad: from their use as an official record by the railroad corporations, to their reproduction in the illustrated press and travel guides, and finally to their adaptation to direct sales and albums in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tracing the complex relationships and occasional conflicts between photographer, publisher, and curator as they crafted the photographs’ different meanings over time, Willumson provides a comprehensive portrayal of the creation and evolution of an important slice of American visual culture.
| Author | : Richard White |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012-03-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0393342379 |
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review The transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, remade the landscape of the West, and opened new ways of life and work. Their discriminatory rates sparked a new antimonopoly politics. The transcontinentals were pivotal actors in the making of modern America, but the triumphal myths of the golden spike, Robber Barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.
