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Going places : transportation redefines the twentieth-century West / Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwantes, Carlos A., 1945-
- Series:
- American West in the twentieth century
- The American West in the twentieth century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transportation--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Transportation.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 419 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- How trains, cars, and planes helped tame and transform the American West.
- Contents:
- Transportation corridors transform the west
- When railroads ruled
- Copper connections and the last transcontinental railroad
- Roads stretching from farm to market, but seldom beyond
- The emergence of new corridors of power
- The twentieth-century transportation revolution
- The new overland route
- Hard choices for hard times
- Is this trip necessary? the impact of World War II
- Auto euphoria and other postwar enthusiasms
- The sky's the limit
- Reinventing the railroads.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-409) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253342023
- OCLC:
- 49727701
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