text The West the railroads made
- Summary
- "The West the Railroads Made" recounts the stories of visionaries such as Henry Harmon Spalding, Samuel Parker, and Asa Whitney, who imagined the railroad as a new Northwest Passage, an iron road through the West to the Orient. As the idea of a Pa... Read more
- Contents
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The magician's rod : railroads, the West, and Manifest destiny -- Space race ; or, a tale of rival cities -- Tracking a transformation -- Lords of creation -- Manifest destinies : the railroad west and the modern world.
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- Description
- xx, 229 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press in association with Washington State Historical Society and the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library at the St. Louis Mercantile Library 2008
| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 385 SCH in Adult Non-fiction | Reshelving |
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| TADL-WOOD | 385 SCH in Adult Non-fiction | Reshelving |
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