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1862-1893 / Maury Klein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klein, Maury, 1939-
- Series:
- Union Pacific ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Union Pacific Railroad Company--History.
- Union Pacific Railroad Company.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (820 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Maury Klein, America's foremost railroad historian, re-creates the powerful personalities and dramatic events that led to the construction of the Union Pacific. With over one hundred historic photographs and maps, Union Pacific details the feat of engineering and human strength and also the wheelings and dealings that were waged as dreamers and scoundrels, politicians and patriots forged a pioneering enterprise in transportation.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Railroad Reference Key; Map; Prologue: The Monument, 1965; Part One: The Challenge, 1862-1869; Part Two: The Quest for Respectability, 1869-1884; Part Three: The Road to Hell, 1884-1893; Source Reference Key; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1987.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9663-2
- OCLC:
- 476096745
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