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Author: David W. Seidel Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439620342 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Horseshoe Curve is known worldwide as an engineering wonder. This landmark, located just west of Altoona, opened to traffic on February 15, 1854, and it enabled the Pennsylvania railroad line to climb the Allegheny Mountains and the eastern continental divide. The Horseshoe Curve's construction impacted railroad design and development for mountainous terrain everywhere, enabling access to coal and other raw materials essential for the industrial age. J. Edgar Thomson, chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is widely recognized for his engineering and design of the Horseshoe Curve, a concept never utilized previously. Today the curve is still in use and sees approximately 70 trains daily. Through vintage photographs, Horseshoe Curve chronicles how this marvel remains one of the vital transportation arteries linking the east and west coasts of the United States.
Author: David W. Seidel Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439620342 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Horseshoe Curve is known worldwide as an engineering wonder. This landmark, located just west of Altoona, opened to traffic on February 15, 1854, and it enabled the Pennsylvania railroad line to climb the Allegheny Mountains and the eastern continental divide. The Horseshoe Curve's construction impacted railroad design and development for mountainous terrain everywhere, enabling access to coal and other raw materials essential for the industrial age. J. Edgar Thomson, chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is widely recognized for his engineering and design of the Horseshoe Curve, a concept never utilized previously. Today the curve is still in use and sees approximately 70 trains daily. Through vintage photographs, Horseshoe Curve chronicles how this marvel remains one of the vital transportation arteries linking the east and west coasts of the United States.
Author: John Ashton Hester Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1796076929 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 235
Book Description
Two stories of plane crashes in the Oconee County mountains are among the many stories from past issues of the Keowee Courier that are contained in this, the twelfth book in the Looking Back series. This book also contains some commentaries by Courier editor Ashton Hester, and highlights from the years 1938, 1948, 1958, 1988, 1998 and 2008. It is the author's hope that the Looking Back books will bring back some nostalgic memories for longtime residents and provide some historical insight for younger people and newcomers to the area. The Keowee Courier was founded in 1849. Sadly, it was recently closed down, with the final issue coming out on March 27, 2019.
Author: Robert H. Behrens Publisher: ISBN: Category : Frisian Americans Languages : en Pages : 426
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The author reviews the history of East Friesland and discusses emigration to the United States of America. He reviews settlement in the States, and gets very specific listing settlements and extracting a brief amount of information from their church books for congregations in the following places: Adams, Brown, Champaign, Hancock, Iroquois, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macoupin, Menard, Montgomery, Ogle, Peoria, Stephenson, Woodford Counties in Illinois and the towns of Pekin and Peoria; Calhoun, Grundy, Jones, Lyon, Osceola, Pocahontas Counties in Iowa; Barton and Rush Counties in Kansas; Chippewa County in Minnesota; Cheyenne and Dawson Counties in Nebraska as well as the southeastern part of the state; Garfield County in Oklahoma; and Texas.
Author: Mary Austin Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252071621 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 500
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When The Land of Journeys' Ending was first published in 1924, The Literary Reviewwarned, "This book is treacherous, waiting to overwhelm you with its abundant poetry." In it, successful New York author Mary Austin describes the epic journey she undertook in 1923, when left her East Coast home at the age of fifty-five to travel through the southwestern United States, the area where she lived as a child and where she would later retire. The journey the book describes is a double one. Austin describes her transition from the cosmopolitan North East to the arid and largely unfamiliar land between the Colorado River and the Rio Grande. In telling her own story, Austin also tells the story of those who journeyed there before her--Native American tribes, Spanish conquistadores, miners, adventurers, and California-bound migrants. The result is both an homage to the magnificence of the desert, mountains, rivers, canyons, plants, and animals of the Southwest and a history of the waves of people who inhabited the region. Part memoir, part travel narrative, part historical investigation, and part ecological study, The Land of Journeys' Ending is a moving account of a woman coming full circle, finding solace in the broad landscape of her youth.
Author: Dottie Dell Elliott Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 548
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David Browning was born in 1782 in North Carolina. He married Mary Magdelene Miller in 1805 and they had seven children. They moved from North Carolina to Tennessee and then on to Missouri. Historical and biographical sketches of his descendants and the time periods in which they lived are included in this material. Parts of at least one branch of his descendants became members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They are now scattered throughout the United States but many remain in Missouri and Oklahoma.
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