Author: Thomas Schuppert
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A rich collection of period--bandw--photos of the trains and the country they traversed to serve the logging industry and mining around Flagstaff. Extensive text covers the period from the mid-1880s to the mid-1960s. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Central Arizona Railroad and the Railroads of Arizona's Central Timber Region
Author: Thomas Schuppert
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A rich collection of period--bandw--photos of the trains and the country they traversed to serve the logging industry and mining around Flagstaff. Extensive text covers the period from the mid-1880s to the mid-1960s. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A rich collection of period--bandw--photos of the trains and the country they traversed to serve the logging industry and mining around Flagstaff. Extensive text covers the period from the mid-1880s to the mid-1960s. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Railroad History
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Chinese in the Woods
Author: Sue Fawn Chung
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097556
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, towns, and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion. Chinese workers labored as woodcutters and flume-herders, lumberjacks and loggers. Exploding the myth of the Chinese as a docile and cheap labor army, Chung shows Chinese laborers earned wages similar to those of non-Asians. Men working as camp cooks, among other jobs, could make even more. At the same time, she draws on archives and archaeology to reconstruct everyday existence, offering evocative portraits of camp living, small town life, personal and work relationships, and the production and technical aspects of a dangerous trade. Chung also explores how Chinese used the legal system to win property and wage rights and how economic and technological change ultimately diminished Chinese participation in the lumber industry. Eye-opening and meticulous, Chinese in the Woods rewrites an important chapter in the history of labor and the American West.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097556
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, towns, and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion. Chinese workers labored as woodcutters and flume-herders, lumberjacks and loggers. Exploding the myth of the Chinese as a docile and cheap labor army, Chung shows Chinese laborers earned wages similar to those of non-Asians. Men working as camp cooks, among other jobs, could make even more. At the same time, she draws on archives and archaeology to reconstruct everyday existence, offering evocative portraits of camp living, small town life, personal and work relationships, and the production and technical aspects of a dangerous trade. Chung also explores how Chinese used the legal system to win property and wage rights and how economic and technological change ultimately diminished Chinese participation in the lumber industry. Eye-opening and meticulous, Chinese in the Woods rewrites an important chapter in the history of labor and the American West.
Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents].
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Seventy-five Years of Railroad History
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Category : Railroad history
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Category : Railroad history
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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House documents
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2328
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2328
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Annual Report of the Department of the Interior
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Report of the Governor of Arizona to the Secretary of the Interior
Author: Arizona. Governor
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 1684
Book Description
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 1684
Book Description
The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2266
Book Description
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2266
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