Author: Helen Hinckley Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Helen Hinckley
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021173959
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Discover the remarkable life of Theodore D. Judah, the visionary engineer who helped build the first transcontinental railroad. In this critically acclaimed biography, Helen Hinckley chronicles Judah's struggles and triumphs as he battled political opposition, financial setbacks, and personal demons to realize his dream of a united and connected America. With its vivid descriptions and compelling narrative, Rails from the West is a fascinating portrait of a true American hero. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Publisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 0899974899
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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In this newest edition in the popular series, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy presents the best of the West. With 70 rural, suburban, and urban trails threading through 1,050 miles, Rail-Trails West covers 60 trails in California, eight in Arizona, and two in Nevada. Many rail-trails offer escapes from city life, like the Mount Lowe Railway Trail, high above the buzzing Los Angeles basin on a rail line vacationers once took to a mountaintop resort. Others offer the pure sensory thrill of sweeping terrain, like Arizona's 7-mile Prescott Peavine Trail. Still more juxtapose the natural world with the railroad's industrial past, like Nevada's Historic Railroad Hiking Trail, which passes through five massive tunnels to reach Hoover Dam. Every trip has a detailed map, directions to the trailhead, and information about parking, restroom facilities, and other amenities. Many of the level rail-trails are suitable for walking, jogging, bicycling, inline skating, wheelchairs, and horses.

Author: Franklin Carter
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780515110999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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AT THE HEART OF A GREAT NATION LAY THE PROUD SPIRIT OF THE RAILROADS.

Author: Bruce C. Cooper
Publisher: Polyglot PressInc
ISBN: 9781411599932
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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Author: George B. Abdill
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Joseph Alig
Publisher: Cartech
ISBN: 9781934709757
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The East Coast vs. West Coast looks both define the era, however differently. The similarities and differences between the varying cars were a point of contention for many years, and the history of the era is celebrated in this new book.

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743203173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

Author: Erin Bowman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544918886
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.

Author: Barry Taylor
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140813537X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 601

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This is a guide to rails, a relatively homogeneous family of birds spread throughout the world. Barry Taylor and Ber van Perlo have described and illustrated 145 species of rails, including two that are newly described, and also ten that are recently extinct and two that are almost certainly extinct. The book, based on up-to-date references and on new observations, is the first to give comprehensive information on field identification (including voice), covering all species and races for which details are known. It is also the first to provide descriptions of the immature and juvenile plumages of many species. The authors provide a detailed summary of current knowledge of all aspects of rail biology and their often complex behaviour, social structure, and family life. They explain how such apparently poorly flying birds can undertake intercontinental migrations and are such widespread and successful colonists of remote oceanic islands. They also discuss the remarkable ease and speed with which species on such islands have evolved into flightless forms in the absence of predators, a fact that has led to the rapid extinction of numerous island taxa following the arrival of man. Rail habitats are fast disappearing, say the authors, and many rails become endangered before enough is known about them to plan effective conservation measures. The book provides information on distribution, status, habitat requirements, and current threats, and it gives conservation priorities for threatened species.