Author: Union Pacific Railroad Company
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Report to the Stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad. For the Year 1876
Author: Union Pacific Railroad Company
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Report to the Stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad, for the Year ...
Author: Union Pacific Railroad Company
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Category : Railroad companies
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Category : Railroad companies
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Pacific Railroads in Congress, 1877 and 1878
Author: Pacific railroads
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Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Author: Richard White
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393082601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
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.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393082601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
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.
Railway Locomotives and Cars
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Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
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Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
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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
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Reports of the Government Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Made to the Secretary of the Interior
Author: Union Pacific Railroad Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Union Pacific Country
Author: Robert G. Athearn
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803258297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
"No one has done before what Athearn has done in this volume. He has utilized company records and a variety of other sources to write a very attractive and readable, but scholarly account of the impact of the Union Pacific and its branch line son the country it served from the 1860s to the 1890s. . . . Everyone from railroad buffs to Western history scholars will like the book."--Choice. "This highly readable book is an excellent history of the heart-breaking efforts to build the Union Pacific into a viable enterprise before the end of the nineteenth century. . . . Throughout this attractive reprint edition, Athearn provides insights and fresh perspectives not only on the Union Pacific but on other railroads in the West and their significance in frontier America."--David Dary, Overland Journal. "A superb contribution by a master historian, Union Pacific Country is a model chapter in the epic story of how the American West was penetrated, settled, and developed with the aid of steam and iron. The research is massive; the writing style is inviting; the photographs, maps, and documents are helpful; and the story is compelling."--Journal of the West. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad: Rebel of the Rockies by Robert G. Athearn is also available.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803258297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
"No one has done before what Athearn has done in this volume. He has utilized company records and a variety of other sources to write a very attractive and readable, but scholarly account of the impact of the Union Pacific and its branch line son the country it served from the 1860s to the 1890s. . . . Everyone from railroad buffs to Western history scholars will like the book."--Choice. "This highly readable book is an excellent history of the heart-breaking efforts to build the Union Pacific into a viable enterprise before the end of the nineteenth century. . . . Throughout this attractive reprint edition, Athearn provides insights and fresh perspectives not only on the Union Pacific but on other railroads in the West and their significance in frontier America."--David Dary, Overland Journal. "A superb contribution by a master historian, Union Pacific Country is a model chapter in the epic story of how the American West was penetrated, settled, and developed with the aid of steam and iron. The research is massive; the writing style is inviting; the photographs, maps, and documents are helpful; and the story is compelling."--Journal of the West. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad: Rebel of the Rockies by Robert G. Athearn is also available.
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended ...
Author: United States. Office of Commissioner of Railroads
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Report of the Commissioner of Railroads
Author: United States Commissioner of Railroads
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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