Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
A List of References to Literature Relating to the Union Pacific System, August 15, 1922
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
A Great and Shining Road
Author: John Hoyt Williams
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297890
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297890
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
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.
A Description of the Western Resorts for Health and Pleasure Reached Via Union Pacific Railway
Author: Union Pacific Railway Company
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337148164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A Description of the western Resorts for Health and Pleasure reached via Union Pacific Railway is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337148164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A Description of the western Resorts for Health and Pleasure reached via Union Pacific Railway is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Railroading Religion
Author: David Walker
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653214
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Railroads, tourism, and government bureaucracy combined to create modern religion in the American West, argues David Walker in this innovative study of Mormonism's ascendency in the railroad era. The center of his story is Corinne, Utah—an end-of-the-track, hell-on-wheels railroad town founded by anti-Mormon businessmen. In the disputes over this town's frontier survival, Walker discovers intense efforts by a variety of theological, political, and economic interest groups to challenge or secure Mormonism's standing in the West. Though Corinne's founders hoped to leverage industrial capital to overthrow Mormon theocracy, the town became the site of a very different dream. Economic and political victory in the West required the production of knowledge about different religious groups settling in its lands. As ordinary Americans advanced their own theories about Mormondom, they contributed to the rise of religion itself as a category of popular and scholarly imagination. At the same time, new and advantageous railroad-related alliances catalyzed LDS Church officials to build increasingly dynamic religious institutions. Through scrupulous research and wide-ranging theoretical engagement, Walker shows that western railroads did not eradicate or diminish Mormon power. To the contrary, railroad promoters helped establish Mormonism as a normative American religion.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653214
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Railroads, tourism, and government bureaucracy combined to create modern religion in the American West, argues David Walker in this innovative study of Mormonism's ascendency in the railroad era. The center of his story is Corinne, Utah—an end-of-the-track, hell-on-wheels railroad town founded by anti-Mormon businessmen. In the disputes over this town's frontier survival, Walker discovers intense efforts by a variety of theological, political, and economic interest groups to challenge or secure Mormonism's standing in the West. Though Corinne's founders hoped to leverage industrial capital to overthrow Mormon theocracy, the town became the site of a very different dream. Economic and political victory in the West required the production of knowledge about different religious groups settling in its lands. As ordinary Americans advanced their own theories about Mormondom, they contributed to the rise of religion itself as a category of popular and scholarly imagination. At the same time, new and advantageous railroad-related alliances catalyzed LDS Church officials to build increasingly dynamic religious institutions. Through scrupulous research and wide-ranging theoretical engagement, Walker shows that western railroads did not eradicate or diminish Mormon power. To the contrary, railroad promoters helped establish Mormonism as a normative American religion.
The Christian Union
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Home on the Rails
Author: Amy G. Richter
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807829269
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there. For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century American
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807829269
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there. For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century American
Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent
Author: Maura Jane Farrelly
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623927X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623927X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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New Outlook
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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Outlook and Independent
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
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