 Texas Trains
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| By : Richard K. Troxell |
Texas is rich in railroad history starting with the Republic of Texas and railroading in Texas continues to thrive today. Troxell brings it all to life with stories of train robbers, train wrecks, the rise and fall of railroad towns, steam engines, historical depots, and directions for where to ride and what to see today—all wrapped around the clues to a real treasure hunt.
Publisher: Republic of Texas Pr
Sales Rank: 570,083
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The General & the Texas: A Pictorial History of the Andrews Raid, April 12, 1862
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| By : Stan Cohen, James G. Bogle |
On April 12, 1862, twenty Union soldiers and two civilians stole a train powered by a locomotive named "The General" just north of Atlanta. Their mission was to drive the train north to Chattanooga, destroying bridges, railways, and rolling stock along the way. Confederates, however, commandeered several engines, including "The Texas, " and initiated what became known as "The Great Locomotive Chase." Two movies and numerous books have been dedicated to this chapter in American history, but this is the first pictorial account of the incident.
Publisher: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. Inc.
Sales Rank: 318,778
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0
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The Great Northern Railway: A History
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| By : Ralph W. Hidy, Muriel E. Hidy, Roy V. Scott, Don L. Hofsommer |
The Great Northern Railway highlights the changes brought on by economic, political, social, and technological advances, including world wars, increased competition from other modes of transportation, and tighter government restrictions. The first part of the book (1856–1916) examines the railway’s early strategies and philosophy, relations with employees, and vigorous campaigns to develop the service area. The second part of the history (1916–1970) offers an assessment of a dramatic period of transition for the railroad—international conflicts, the Great Depression, the rise of motor vehicles, increasing labor costs, and stronger unions. Illustrated with more than two hundred maps, period photographs, and drawings, the volume also includes appendixes listing the original track-laying history, track removals, ruling grades on main freight routes, and main line ruling grades from Minneapolis to Seattle.
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd)
Sales Rank: 1,243,881
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The Great Persuader
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| By : David Sievert Lavender |
The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all -- Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California, storekeeper who, along with Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, parlayed $1,500 into America's first continental railroad. It is an almost unbelievable story of a high dream of fortune realized through highhanded practices -- an adventure which left the national treasury poorer by millions of swindled dollars, and America itself richer by a national railroad system which contributed greatly to the country's westward expansion. The Great Persuader is a powerful story of a remarkable man whose singleness of purpose and ruthless manipulation of men and money propelled the great enterprise forward against all odds.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Sales Rank: 503,273
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The Last Spike : The Great Railway, 1881-1885
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| By : Pierre Berton |
In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years - exactly half the time stipulated in the contract. Pierre Berton recreates the adventures that were part of this vast undertaking: the railway on the brink of bankruptcy, with one hour between it and ruin; the extraordinary land boom of Winnipeg in 1881-1882; and the epic tale of how William Van Horne rushed 3,000 soldiers over a half-finished railway to quell the Riel Rebellion.
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Sales Rank: 547,929
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0
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The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman
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| By : Maury Klein |
This biography of E. H. Harriman (1847-1909) reasserts his legacy as one of America's greatest financiers and railroad leaders. A Wall Street banker until age 50, Harriman catapulted into the railroad arena in 1897 by gaining control of the Union Pacific Railroad as it emerged from bankruptcy. He later acquired large stakes in the Southern Pacific and the Baltimore and Ohio, sometimes clashing with James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Sales Rank: 74,721
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The Life and Legend of Jay Gould
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| By : Maury Klein |
Jay Gould was an individual who for a century has been singled out as the most unscrupulous of the turn-of-the-century robber barons. In this splendid biography Maury Klein paints the most complete portrait of the notorious Gould ever written. Klein's Gould is a brilliant but ruthless businessman who merged dying railroads into expansive, profit-making lines, including the giant Union Pacific. 40 illustrations. 640 pp.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Sales Rank: 99,454
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.2 / 5.0
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The National Dream : The Great Railway, 1871-1881
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| By : Pierre Berton |
Using primary sources - diaries, letters, unpublished manuscripts, public documents and newspapers - Pierre Berton has reconstructed the incredible decade of the 1870s, when Canadians of every stripe - contractors, politicians, financiers, surveyors, workingmen, journalists and entrepreneurs - fought for the railway, or against it.
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Sales Rank: 680,307
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