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Author | : Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Pacific railroads |
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Download Progress of the Union Pacific Railroad West from Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John C. Kenefick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Library |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Progress of the Union Pacific Railroad Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Grenville M. Dodge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Download How We Built the Union Pacific Railway Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Barry Combs |
Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Download Westward to Promontory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Consists of photos made by A. J. Russell in 1868 and 1869 and now in the collection of the Oakland (Calif.) Museum, with introductory, explanatory, and connecting text.
Author | : Stephen E. Ambrose |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2001-11-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780743203173 |
Download Nothing Like It In the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author | : Martha A. Sandweiss |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300103151 |
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Resurrecting scores of rare images of the 19th century American West, "Print the Legend" offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book portrays how Americans first came to understand western photos and to envision their expanding nation. 138 illustrations.
Author | : Marie Cahill |
Publisher | : Crescent |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Download The History of the Union Pacific Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An absorbing history of the railroad that epitomized the spirit of America's westward expansion. Told in amazing color and b&w pictures.
Author | : James K. Wheaton |
Publisher | : BookCaps Study Guides |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1610427610 |
Download The First Transcontinental Railroad Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The First Transcontinental Railroad, originally called the Pacific Railroad, was a railroad built in the United States between 1863 and 1869 that connected the western part of America with its eastern part. Built by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad, it connected the Eastern terminus of Council Bluffs, Iowa/Omaha, Nebraska with the railroad lines of the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California. In time, it would link in with the existing railway network present on the Eastern Coast of America, thus connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coast of the United States for the first time by rail. Because of this, the line received a second nickname, “the Overland Route.” The railroad was a government operation, authorized by Congress during the height of the Civil War. Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Acts in 1862 and again in 1864. To pay for it, the US government issued 30 year bonds, as well as granting government land to contractors. The construction of the line was a major achievement by both the Union Pacific (constructing westward from Iowa) and the Central Pacific (constructing eastward from California). The line was officially opened on May 10, 1869, with the Last Spike driven through the railway at Promontory Summit, Utah. James K. Wheaton looks at the history in this eBook.
Author | : Zane Grey |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2015-11-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1510700447 |
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From one of the most beloved Western authors comes an epic historical tale of adventure and romance in the great wilderness. Against the epic backdrop of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across plains and deserts and through the mountains to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah comes a sprawling, historical tale. Warren Neale is a brilliant civil engineer who is constantly confronted with construction problems. He is sided by Larry Red King, a Texas gunfighter and friend. Allie Lee, who is heading east from California on a wagon train, is the sole survivor of an Indian raid in the Black Hills. Neale and a small company of US cavalry find Allie hidden at the scene and nearly out of her mind in terror. Al Slingerland, a trapper and buffalo hunter, has a cabin in a nearby valley, and Allie is taken there to recover. Benton is the wild town set up overnight to service the vices of the multitude of railroad workers. The only law is that which the soldiers impose, but their concern is not really in enforcing law in Benton, but in protecting the men laying the tracks and the supply trains. In addition to the natural obstacles that impede the building of the Union Pacific, workers must contend with the equally great weight of constant graft and corruption, against which Larry Red King’s guns can afford no protection. In this magnificent panorama of constant danger and adventure, the many lives involved, including ruthless gamblers and women of the evening, and the slow but monumental progress of the laying of the track through the wilderness, Zane Grey vividly brings to life a lost time and society in a grand novel, now published as he had first written it. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction that takes place in the old West. Westerns—books about outlaws, sheriffs, chiefs and warriors, cowboys and Indians—are a genre in which we publish regularly. Our list includes international bestselling authors like Zane Gray and Louis L’Amour, and many more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.