Schwantes, Carlos A.

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 Pacific Railroad grew in the 1840s and 1850s, many Americans imagined the West as a fertile garden or a treasure chest of priceless minerals. Railroads...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 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

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