Format:
1 online resource (820 pages)
ISBN:
9780816696635
Content:
Maury Klein, America's foremost railroad historian, re-creates the powerful personalities and dramatic events that led to the construction of the Union Pacific. With over one hundred historic photographs and maps, Union Pacific details the feat of engineering and human strength and also the wheelings and dealings that were waged as dreamers and scoundrels, politicians and patriots forged a pioneering enterprise in transportation.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Railroad Reference Key -- Map -- Prologue: The Monument, 1965 -- Part One: The Challenge, 1862-1869 -- 1. The Vision -- 2. The Promoters -- 3. The Company -- 4. The Surveys -- 5. The Organization -- 6. The Falling Out -- 7. The Standoff -- 8. The Payoff -- 9. The Showdown -- 10. The Race -- 11. The Golden Spike -- Part Two: The Quest for Respectability, 1869-1884 -- 12. The Mourning After -- 13. The Bridge -- 14. The Scandal -- 15. The Newcomer -- 16. The Resources -- 17. The Branches -- 18. The Ancient Feud -- 19. The Competition -- 20. The Consolidation -- 21. The Explosion -- 22. The Crisis -- Part Three: The Road to Hell, 1884-1893 -- 23. The Man on Horseback -- 24. The Massacre -- 25. The Service -- 26. The Assets -- 27. The Labyrinth -- 28. The Northwest Passage -- 29. The System -- 30. The Wars -- 31. The Leader -- 32. The Turnover -- 33. The Collapse -- Source Reference Key -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816644599
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Klein, Maury, 1939 - Union Pacific ; 1: 1862 - 1893 Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006 ISBN 0816644594
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816644599
Additional Edition:
Print version Union Pacific : 1862-1893
Language:
English
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