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They built the West; an epic of rails and cities.
LIBRA F591 .Q85 1965
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quiett, Glenn Chesney, 1895-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- West (U.S.)--History.
- West (U.S.).
- Railroads--West (U.S.)--History.
- Railroads.
- History.
- Cities and towns--West (U.S.).
- Cities and towns.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 569 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1965.
- Contents:
- The route for the first Pacific Railroad
- The surveyors who cleared the way
- The builders of the railroad
- Early railroad financing
- Town-building and development of resources
- Reclaiming the desert
- Denver and her struggle for transportation
- What the Gold-Rush brought San Rancisco
- Building the city by the Golden Gate
- Los Angeles, California's first real-estate promotion
- The self-made metropolis of the Pacific
- San Diego, left off the main line
- Portland, the city gravity built
- Tacoma, a railroad creation
- Seattle, born of the spirit
- Spokane, capital of an inland empire.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 543-549.
- OCLC:
- 409093
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