Union Pacific CountryU of Nebraska Press, 1971 M01 1 - 480 páginas "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. |
Contenido
Introduction | 15 |
Tracklaying in Weber Canyon Utah 1868 i | 24 |
The invasion of Indian country | 40 |
Poster for the opening of rail service | 47 |
Steamers bringing excursionists for a train trip 1866 | 58 |
4 | 64 |
Mainstreet Salt Lake City in 1865 | 73 |
A westbound construction crew | 80 |
UP advertisement of Nebraska land | 164 |
Sod and lumber structure in Nebraska 1888 | 178 |
Corn harvest in Kansas during the 1890s | 190 |
Engine used on both Utah and Northern | 256 |
Engine on the Utah Central | 273 |
Along the Columbia River | 294 |
Workers clearing O R N tracks in winter of 188485 | 302 |
NORTHWEST PASSAGE | 311 |
First train of the Utah Central 1870 | 107 |
Sixteenth Street Cheyenne 1868 | 134 |
Coaling on the road by Chinese laborers | 140 |
UP poster offering land in Kansas | 154 |
IN THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES | 331 |
RECEIVERSHIP IS INEVITABLE | 355 |
Sale of the UP on November 1 1897 | 359 |
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