Author: Robert A. BangPublisher:
ISBN: 9780976279730
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Forgotten Railroads Through Westchester County
Author: Robert A. BangPublisher:
ISBN: 9780976279730
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway
Author: Herbert H. HarwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
J. P. Morgan's enigmatic enterprise, the Westchester Railway
Westchester's Forgotten Railway, 1912-1937
Author: Roger ArcaraThe Putnam Division
Author: Daniel R. GalloPublisher:
ISBN: 9780915276295
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Next Stop Westchester!
Author: George H. DouglasPublisher: Hudson River Museum
ISBN: 9780943651262
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Railroad History
Author: The Story of the Bronx from the Purchase Made by the Dutch from the Indians in 1639 to the Present Day
Author: Stephen JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Cattle Kingdom
Author: Christopher KnowltonPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544369971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
“The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. This is a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made. “Knowlton writes well about all the fun stuff: trail drives, rambunctious cow towns, gunfights and range wars . . . [He] enlists all of these tropes in support of an intriguing thesis: that the romance of the Old West arose upon the swelling surface of a giant economic bubble . . . Cattle Kingdom is The Great Plains by way of The Big Short.” — Wall Street Journal “Knowlton deftly balances close-ups and bird’s-eye views. We learn countless details . . . More important, we learn why the story played out as it did.” — New York Times Book Review “The best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years.” — True West
The King's Best Highway
Author: Eric JaffePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439176108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A VIVID AND FASCINATING LOOK AT AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST STORIED HIGHWAY, THE BOSTON POST ROAD During its evolution from Indian trails to modern interstates, the Boston Post Road, a system of over-land routes between New York City and Boston, has carried not just travelers and mail but the march of American history itself. Eric Jaffe captures the progress of people and culture along the road through four centuries, from its earliest days as the king of England’s “best highway” to the current era. Centuries before the telephone, radio, or Internet, the Boston Post Road was the primary conduit of America’s prosperity and growth. News, rumor, political intrigue, financial transactions, and personal missives traveled with increasing rapidity, as did people from every walk of life. From post riders bearing the alarms of revolution, to coaches carrying George Washington on his first presidential tour, to railroads transporting soldiers to the Civil War, the Boston Post Road has been essential to the political, economic, and social development of the United States. Continuously raised, improved, rerouted, and widened for faster and heavier traffic, the road played a key role in the advent of newspapers, stagecoach travel, textiles, mass-produced bicycles and guns, commuter railroads, automobiles—even Manhattan’s modern grid. Many famous Americans traveled the highway, and it drew the keen attention of such diverse personages as Benjamin Franklin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, P. T. Barnum, J. P. Morgan, and Robert Moses. Eric Jaffe weaves this entertaining narrative with a historian’s eye for detail and a journalist’s flair for storytelling. A cast of historical figures, celebrated and unknown alike, tells the lost tale of this road. Revolutionary printer William Goddard created a postal network that united the colonies against the throne. General Washington struggled to hold the highway during the battle for Manhattan. Levi Pease convinced Americans to travel by stagecoach until, half a century later, Nathan Hale convinced them to go by train. Abe Lincoln, still a dark-horse candidate in early 1860, embarked on a railroad speaking tour along the route that clinched the presidency. Bomb builder Lester Barlow, inspired by the Post Road’s notorious traffic, nearly sold Congress on a national system of expressways twenty-five years before the Interstate Highway Act of 1956. Based on extensive travels of the highway, interviews with people living up and down the road, and primary sources unearthed from the great libraries between New York City and Boston—including letters, maps, contemporaneous newspapers, and long-forgotten government documents—The King’s Best Highway is a delightful read for American history buffs and lovers of narrative everywhere.
The Book of Daniel Drew
Author: Bouck WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drew, Daniel, 1797-1879
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description