Author: Samuel BowlesPublisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Opening of the Pacific Railroad
Author: L. A. WellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Opening of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
Author: Union Pacific Railroad
Author: Brian SolomonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610605595
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
History and description of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Riding the Transcontinental Rails
Author: Bruce C. CooperPublisher: Polyglot PressInc
ISBN: 9781411599932
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
A Great and Shining Road
Author: John Hoyt WilliamsPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297890
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were officially joined on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, with the driving of a golden spike. This historic ceremony marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Spanning the Sierras and the “Great American Desert,” the tracks connected San Francisco to Council Bluffs, Iowa. A Great and Shining Road is the exciting story of a mammoth feat that called forth entrepreneurial daring, financial wizardry, technological innovation, political courage and chicanery, and the heroism of thousands of laborers.
Ten Mile Day
Author: Mary Ann FraserPublisher: Square Fish
ISBN: 1250131243
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is a great adventure story in the history of the American West--the day Charles Crocker staked $10,000 on the crews' ability to lay a world record ten miles of track in a single, Ten Mile Day.
Nothing Like It In the World
Author: Stephen E. AmbrosePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743203173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
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
See America First
Author: Marguerite ShafferPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
In See America First, Marguerite Shaffer chronicles the birth of modern American tourism between 1880 and 1940, linking tourism to the simultaneous growth of national transportation systems, print media, a national market, and a middle class with money and time to spend on leisure. Focusing on the See America First slogan and idea employed at different times by railroads, guidebook publishers, Western boosters, and Good Roads advocates, she describes both the modern marketing strategies used to promote tourism and the messages of patriotism and loyalty embedded in the tourist experience. She shows how tourists as consumers participated in the search for a national identity that could assuage their anxieties about American society and culture. Generously illustrated with images from advertisements, guidebooks, and travelogues, See America First demonstrates that the promotion of tourist landscapes and the consumption of tourist experiences were central to the development of an American identity.
Our New West
Author: Samuel BowlesPublisher: Hartford, Conn. : Hartford Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Details the author's journeys and experiences across the North American continent in the summers of 1865 and 1866, exploring the Western United States.