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1894-1969 / Maury Klein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klein, Maury, 1939-
- Series:
- Union Pacific ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Union Pacific Railroad Company--History.
- Union Pacific Railroad Company.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (676 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The second volume in the history of the Union Pacific begins after the financial panic of 1893, which pushed the railroad into bankruptcy.Maury Klein examines the challenges faced by the Union Pacific in the new century and how, under the innovative leadership of Edward H. Harriman, the Union Pacific again played the role of industrial pioneer.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Railroad Short Titles; Map; Prologue: The Funeral, 1916; Part One: The Transformation, 1893-1909; Part Two: The Great Adjustment, 1910-1939; Part Three: The New Railroad, 1940-1969; Epilogue: The Rebirth; Selective Bibliography; Source Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1987.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9664-0
- OCLC:
- 171126939
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