Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Burgess' Railway Directory
The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890
Author: George Rogers TaylorPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252071140
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Rapid population growth in the Great Plains and the American West after the Civil War was the result not only of railroad expansion but of a collaboration among competing railroads to adopt a uniform width for track. This title shows how the consolidation of smaller railroads and the growth of capitalism worked to unify the railroad industry.
Low's Railway Directory for ...
Author: Bulletin of the Business Historical Society
Author: Business Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Railway Economics
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway EconomicsPublisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Burgess' Railway Directory for 1861
Author: Josiah J. BurgessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
States at War, Volume 6
Author: Richard F. MillerPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1512601071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
A valuable reference guide to South Carolina during the Civil War that includes a detailed Confederate States chronology
The Railway Age and Northwestern Railroader
Author: Forging a New South
Author: Maury NicelyPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621908003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
"John T. Wilder was an entrepreneur, Civil War general, and business leader who would become influential in the development of post-Civil War Chattanooga. A northern transplant who made his early fortune in the iron industry, Wilder would gain notoriety in the Western Theater through his victories at the battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, and throughout the Tullahoma and Atlanta Campaigns while leading the famous "Lightning Brigade." After the Civil War, he relocated to Chattanooga and began the Roane Iron Company and fostered southern ironworks throughout the southeast. He was elected mayor of Chattanooga but would fail to be elected to Congress as its representative. Finally, he was instrumental in the establishment of national military parks in Chattanooga and Chickamauga. Nicely's biography captures the life of a man important to the overall development of Chattanooga and East Tennessee and argues that Wilder was influential in bringing both northern and immigrant populations to the area"--
Catalogue of the Library of the Minnesota Historical Society
Author: Minnesota Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description