From Prairie to Corn Belt
Author | : Allan G. Bogue |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Allan G. Bogue |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bogue |
Publisher | : Times Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780812960556 |
Author | : John C. Hudson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The Civil War demonstrated that, even though its agriculture was distinctive, the larger region was divided in social and political terms.
Author | : Allan G. Bogue |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780813822181 |
This is a study of the development of farming in the prairie states. The book emphasises the individual farmer (the man with dirt on his hands and dung on his boots), and the problems and developments that have forced him to make decisions about his farm business.
Author | : Raymond Bial |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780395562345 |
Text and photographs describe the United States Corn Belt region and its harvest season.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781610605588 |
Author | : Dennis Nordin |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780253345714 |
Their account will inform readers with a detailed account of one of the great transformations in American life."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Anna Barrows |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : H. Roger Grant |
Publisher | : Railroads in America |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780875800950 |
The Chicago Great Western Railroad was a spunky midwestern carrier that contributed mightily to the transportation industry. The 1,500-mile CGW, built by the iconoclastic and ambitious A. B. Stickney, proved to be exceptionally innovative as it developed new ways to compete with larger railroads. Pitted against tough, determined competitors, the CGW during its eighty-five years made innovations that changed the history of American transportation. Among the pioneering activities for which the Great Western is remembered are the early use of internal combustion equipment, the hauling of truck trailers atop flatcars ("piggy-backs"), and the use of extremely long freight trains. Indeed, much of the railroad's past supports the notion that smaller, less-established carriers like the CGW frequently stimulated changes in industry thinking and practices. In spite of its innovations, the path of the Great Western, sometimes called the "Great Weedy," did not always run smoothly. In the 1930s, John W. Barriger III quipped, "The Chicago Great Western is a mountain railroad in a prairie country serving a traffic vacuum." Such a negative assessment was not uncommon for this Granger pike, which in fact climbed some steep grades and owned a long tunnel. And while the road did not operate in a "traffic vacuum," its competitors were well entrenched and robust. By 1903, the CGW served the strategic gateways of Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Joseph, and Omaha. Between Chicago and the Twin Cities alone, the company competed with six other roads. When the Chicago & North Western acquired the Great Western in 1968, one of America's most imaginative railroads disappeared. The Corn Belt Route is the first scholarly treatment of the Chicago Great Western Railroad, a company that has long intrigued the railfan, whether collector, modeler, photographer, or historian. Richly illustrated, this book tells the lively story of one of the great small railroads that once served the Midwest.