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Rival rails : the race to build America's greatest transcontinental railroad / Walter R. Borneman.
Lippincott Library HE2751 .B67 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borneman, Walter R., 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--United States--History--19th century.
- Railroads.
- History.
- United States.
- Railroads--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 406 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2010]
- Contents:
- Opening gambits (1853-1874)
- Lines upon the map
- Learning the rails
- An interruption of war
- Transcontinental by any name
- The Santa Fe joins the fray
- Straight west from Denver
- "Why is it we have so many bitter enemies?"
- Contested empire (1874-1889)
- Showdown at Yuma
- Impasse at Raton
- Battle royal for the gorge
- Handshake at Deming
- West across Texas
- Transcontinental at last
- Battling for California
- Gould again
- To the halls of Montezuma
- California for a dollar
- Santa Fe all the way (1889-1909)
- Making the markets
- Canyon dreams and schemes
- The boom goes bust
- Still west from Denver
- Top of the heap
- Dueling streamliners.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781400065615
- 1400065615
- OCLC:
- 488730790
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