Author: Robert L. Frey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870950926
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Northern Pacific Railway: Supersteam era, 1925-1945
Author: Robert L. Frey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870950926
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870950926
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Jay Cooke's Gamble
Author: M. John Lubetkin
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080614503X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873. Staking his reputation and wealth on the Northern Pacific, Cooke was soon whipsawed by the railroad’s mismanagement, questionable contracts, and construction problems. Financier J. P. Morgan undermined him, and the Crédit Mobilier scandal ended congressional support. When railroad surveyors and army escorts ignored Sioux chief Sitting Bull’s warning not to enter the Yellowstone Valley, Indian attacks—combined with alcoholic commanders—led to embarrassing setbacks on the field, in the nation’s press, and among investors. Lubetkin’s suspenseful narrative describes events played out from Wall Street to the Yellowstone and vividly portrays the soldiers, engineers, businessmen, politicians, and Native Americans who tried to build or block the Northern Pacific.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080614503X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873. Staking his reputation and wealth on the Northern Pacific, Cooke was soon whipsawed by the railroad’s mismanagement, questionable contracts, and construction problems. Financier J. P. Morgan undermined him, and the Crédit Mobilier scandal ended congressional support. When railroad surveyors and army escorts ignored Sioux chief Sitting Bull’s warning not to enter the Yellowstone Valley, Indian attacks—combined with alcoholic commanders—led to embarrassing setbacks on the field, in the nation’s press, and among investors. Lubetkin’s suspenseful narrative describes events played out from Wall Street to the Yellowstone and vividly portrays the soldiers, engineers, businessmen, politicians, and Native Americans who tried to build or block the Northern Pacific.
Railroads and Clearcuts
Author: Derrick Jensen
Publisher: Keokee Company Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: Keokee Company Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Eye of the Explorer
Author: Paul D. McDermott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878425600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eye of the Explorer: Views of the Northern Pacific Railroad Survey reproduces all seventy of the lithographs that appeared with Stevens�s final congressional report, published in 1860, as well as twelve of the lovely watercolor images from which the final prints were prepared
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878425600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eye of the Explorer: Views of the Northern Pacific Railroad Survey reproduces all seventy of the lithographs that appeared with Stevens�s final congressional report, published in 1860, as well as twelve of the lovely watercolor images from which the final prints were prepared
History of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Author: Eugene Virgil Smalley
Publisher: New York : Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Wonderland, Or, The Pacific Northwest and Alaska
Author: John Hyde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Guidebook of the Western United States
Author: Joseph Silas Diller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Orphan Road
Author: Kurt E. Armbruster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781636821221
Category : Puget Sound Region (Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Seattle residents were bitterly disappointed in 1873 when the Northern Pacific selected rival Tacoma as the future Puget Sound terminus for Washington Territory's first transcontinental railroad. This book depicts the growth of railways across the Puget Sound region, including Tacoma's frantic quest for a saltwater terminal of their own, descriptions of individual lines, and the colorful personalities and urban aspirations that eventually brought Seattle to the forefront of Washington commerce"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781636821221
Category : Puget Sound Region (Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Seattle residents were bitterly disappointed in 1873 when the Northern Pacific selected rival Tacoma as the future Puget Sound terminus for Washington Territory's first transcontinental railroad. This book depicts the growth of railways across the Puget Sound region, including Tacoma's frantic quest for a saltwater terminal of their own, descriptions of individual lines, and the colorful personalities and urban aspirations that eventually brought Seattle to the forefront of Washington commerce"--Provided by publisher.
Nothing Like It In the World
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743203173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743203173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
The Great Northern Railway
Author:
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452907102
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Written by historians at Harvard Business School, Mississippi State U., and St. Cloud State U. (Minn.), this history details the development and day- to-day affairs of this powerful business, and the careers of the main figures instrumental in its operation. This definitive work, first published by
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452907102
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Written by historians at Harvard Business School, Mississippi State U., and St. Cloud State U. (Minn.), this history details the development and day- to-day affairs of this powerful business, and the careers of the main figures instrumental in its operation. This definitive work, first published by