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Wheat country railroad : the Northern Pacific's Spokane & Palouse and competitors / Philip F. Beach.
Lippincott Library HE2791.N855 B43 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beach, Phil (Philip Frank), 1936- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Northern Pacific Railroad Company--History.
- Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
- Spokane and Palouse Railway Company--History.
- Spokane and Palouse Railway Company.
- Columbia and Palouse Railroad Company--History.
- Columbia and Palouse Railroad Company.
- Railroads--Washington (State)--History--19th century.
- Railroads.
- Railroads--Idaho--History--19th century.
- Railroads--United States--History--19th century.
- History.
- United States.
- Idaho.
- Washington (State).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "A detailed history and reference work concerning railroads south of Spokane, Washington, and north of the Snake River."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Railroad beginning in the Snake River country, 1864-1883
- The Columbia and Palouse Railroad to 1886 and the fall of Villard
- The Northern Pacific prepares to return to the Palouse, 1885-86
- Lease negotiations, 1881-87
- The Spokane and Palouse construction: Marshall to Belmont, 1886-87
- The Spokane & Palouse extends to Genesee, 1886-88
- Oregon Railway & navigation projection and expansion in the Palouse, 1884-1890
- The joint lease and the arbitration contract negotiations, 1887-89
- Early projections of the Spokane & Palouse to Colfax and Penawawa, 1885-92
- The S&P and the ORN consider routes to Lewiston, 1885-92
- S&P operation, the Lewiston extension construction, 1890-93 and the Farmington branch, 1890-1910
- James J. Hill, the great Northern and the Palouse, to 1894
- The Palouse Railroads during the Northern Pacific receivership, 1893-96
- The completion of the Lewiston extension and the demise of the Spokane & Palouse, 1897-1900
- The Northern Pacific, James J. Hill and E. H. Harriman and the Snake River country, 1897-1901
- Conflict and agreement, 1901-1910
- The Columbia & Palouse Railroad and the La Crosse gateway, 1887 to 1980
- Projections, surveys and construction, 1886-1913
- New railroads in the Palouse, 1901-1910
- Palouse & Lewiston branches, 1901-1910.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780874223613
- 087422361X
- OCLC:
- 1042083342
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