 Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1865-1869
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| By : Stephen E. Ambrose, Jeffrey Demunn (Narrator), Jeffrey de Munn (Reader) |
In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers an historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage. Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life. Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men -- the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
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Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910
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| By : William Deverell |
Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. Railroad Crossing is the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California, and it illuminates the chaos that was industrial America from the middle of the nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth...
Publisher: University of California Press
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Railroad Reorganization
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| By : Stuart Daggett |
By examining some early major railroad reorganizations, this study looks at the causes of financial difficulties of railroads and alternative methods of reorganization. This engrossing study of railroad reorganization looks at the financial history of the seven most important railroads which failed from 1892 – 1896, and one railroad that was reorganized in 1902.
Publisher: Beard Group
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Railroads and American Law
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| By : James W Ely Jr. |
Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
Sales Rank: 368,304
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Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West 1863
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| By : Roger Pickenpaugh |
This is the story of the first great Federal troop movement by rail and of the corresponding Confederate transfer of General James Longstreet's troops a few weeks previously. The contrast between the two operations points up the Union advantages in technology, infrastructure, and mobility that would offset the Confederate advantage of interior lines. An important study of a critical movement, the work also benefits from an assembly of anecdotes and comments from the troops involved.
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Sales Rank: 399,006
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Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
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| By : David O. Stowell |
For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens of towns and cities. The Great Strike of 1877 was one of the largest and most violent urban uprisings in American history. Whereas most historians treat the event solely as a massive labor strike that targeted the railroads, David O. Stowell examines America's predicament more broadly to uncover the roots of this rebellion. He studies the urban origins of the Strike in three upstate New York cities--Buffalo, Albany, and Syracuse.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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