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Crossroads of a continent : Missouri railroads, 1851-1921 / Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen, Peter A., author.
- Hofsommer, Donovan L., author.
- Schwantes, Carlos A., 1945- author.
- Series:
- Railroads past and present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--Missouri--History.
- Railroads.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
- Contents:
- When geography defined strategy: commercial empires and Missouri's first railroad
- Dreams and schemes: Missouri as America's transportation frontier
- The formative 1850s: launching Missouri's first railroads
- Divided Missouri: railroads and civil war disruption
- Railroad rivals: Saint Louis and the rise of Chicago
- Seeking Missouri: forging a midwestern railroad network
- The masterpiece of creation: Kansas City courts the railroads
- The search for order: standardization and system building
- Reorienting the compass of opportunity: the quest for the southwest
- Making connections: running trains and building traffic
- Trouble on the tracks: railroads and regulation
- From many to one: Saint Louis union station
- Railroad visionaries: Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell
- Meet me in Saint Louis: railroads and the 1904 World's Fair
- Limiteds and locals: hotels on wheels and slow trains to everywhere
- The heart of a big small town: Kansas City union station
- Missouri-made: from streetcars and interurbans to doodlebugs and streamliners
- Local matters: show-me short lines
- Watershed: regulation, World War I, and the US railroad administration
- Afterword: a time of transition.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hansen, Peter A. Crossroads of a continent
- ISBN:
- 9780253062383 (electronic bk.)
- 0253062381 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99991348448
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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