Author: Union Pacific Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Souvenir and Views of Union Pacific "The Overland Route", the Worlds Pictorial Line
Author: Union Pacific Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Souvenir and Views of Union Pacific, "the Overland Route," the World's Pictorial Line (en Route to California)
Author: Union Pacific Railroad Company (1897- )Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019572160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This promotional book from the Union Pacific Railroad Company showcases the scenic attractions along the Overland Route from Chicago to California. The book includes numerous photographs, illustrations, and descriptions of the various stops along the way, highlighting the natural beauty and cultural landmarks of the American West. Originally published in 1889, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into the early days of American rail travel. 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.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: A List of References to Literature Relating to the Union Pacific System, August 15, 1922
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
How We Built the Union Pacific Railway
Author: Grenville M. DodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
Author: The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899
Author: Wendy Jean KatzPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803278802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha’s key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893. The exposition also promoted the rise of the United States as an imperial power, at the time on the brink of the Spanish-American War, and the nation’s place in bringing “civilization” to Indigenous populations both overseas and at the conclusion of the recent Plains Indian Wars. The Omaha World’s Fair, however, is one of the least studied American expositions. Wendy Jean Katz brings together leading scholars to better understand the event’s place in the larger history of both Victorian-era America and the American West. The interdisciplinary essays in this volume cover an array of topics, from competing commercial visions of the cities of the Great West; to the role of women in the promotion of City Beautiful ideals of public art and urban planning; and the constructions of Indigenous and national identities through exhibition, display, and popular culture. Leading scholars T. J. Boisseau, Bonnie M. Miller, Sarah J. Moore, Nancy Parezo, Akim Reinhardt, and Robert Rydell, among others, discuss this often-misunderstood world’s fair and its place in the Victorian-era ascension of the United States as a world power.
California for the Tourist
Author: Union Pacific Railroad Company. Passenger DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Railroading Religion
Author: David WalkerPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653214
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Railroads, tourism, and government bureaucracy combined to create modern religion in the American West, argues David Walker in this innovative study of Mormonism's ascendency in the railroad era. The center of his story is Corinne, Utah—an end-of-the-track, hell-on-wheels railroad town founded by anti-Mormon businessmen. In the disputes over this town's frontier survival, Walker discovers intense efforts by a variety of theological, political, and economic interest groups to challenge or secure Mormonism's standing in the West. Though Corinne's founders hoped to leverage industrial capital to overthrow Mormon theocracy, the town became the site of a very different dream. Economic and political victory in the West required the production of knowledge about different religious groups settling in its lands. As ordinary Americans advanced their own theories about Mormondom, they contributed to the rise of religion itself as a category of popular and scholarly imagination. At the same time, new and advantageous railroad-related alliances catalyzed LDS Church officials to build increasingly dynamic religious institutions. Through scrupulous research and wide-ranging theoretical engagement, Walker shows that western railroads did not eradicate or diminish Mormon power. To the contrary, railroad promoters helped establish Mormonism as a normative American religion.