Grant, H. Roger
Summary: Looks at the impact and importance of railroads and railroad travel on cities and towns throughout the United States, from 1830 through 1930.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0973 GRAFloca, Brian.
Summary: Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMNielsen, Waldo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Old Bottle Magazine 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0973 NIESedgwick, John
Summary: John Sedgwick recounts the decade-long fight between General William J. Palmer, the Civil War hero leading the "little family" of his Rio Grande, coming down from Denver, hoping to showcase the majesty of the Rockies, and William Barstow Strong, the hard-nosed manager of the corporate-minded Santa Fe, venturing west from Kansas. What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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Contents: Part one. The national scene: the national character -- What the young men dream -- Of empire-builders -- The winning of the west -- Two captains of industry -- The fight for Erie -- Grandeurs and miseries of empire-building -- Part two. Rising from the ruins -- Mephistopheles -- Caesar Borgia in California -- Giants of the northwest -- Certain industrialists arose -- Morgan and the railways --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 1995
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Summary: Vintage magazine covers from Railroad, The New Yorker, and The Saturday Evening Post and original Lionel Train advertisements dating from the 1950s are only a few of the nostalgia-filled images, many never before published, that illustrate this Yuletide anthology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 JENHalberstadt, Hans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motorbooks International 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 725.33 HALAmbrose, Stephen E.
Summary: The account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad-the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Transport AmbroseHiltzik, Michael A.
Summary: "From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0973 HILCooper, Anderson
Summary: Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.097 WHISchwantes, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 SCHBrouws, Jeffrey T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 625.2 FOSKelly, Jack
Summary: "A vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.892 KELKornweibel, Theodore.
Summary: "For over a century, railroading provided the most important industrial occupation for blacks. Brakemen, firemen, porters, chefs, mechanics, laborers - African American men and women have been essential to the daily operation and success of American railroads. The connections between railroads and African Americans extend well beyond employment. Civil rights protests beginning in the late 19th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 KORDel Vecchio, Michael J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MBI Pub. 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bonanza Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.122 REEStraus, Roger.
Summary: "An evocative and stunning photographic tribute to America's railroad stations. For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the railroad station or depot was the communal hub of every American town that could boast of train service. There, citizens gathered before they sent loved ones off to college, marriage, or war-and where they greeted them on their return. Most of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Studio 2011
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Summary: Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north without being caught or killed, she'd be free. Facing enormous danger, Araminta made it,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022