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This new edition of the first comprehensive history of the financing, construction, growth, and management of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway includes nearly twenty-five more years of history.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the New Edition
1. Colonel Holliday’s Vision
2. Texas Cows and Colorado Mountain Passes
3. Russian Wheat Farmers and Boston Capitalists
4. Fred Harvey and His Girls
5. Headlong Expansion
6. The Captains of Industry Reorganize
7. Expansion—Conservative and Controlled
8. From Teakettles to Mallets
9. Federalization and Normalcy
10. Depression, War, and Technological Change
11. The Coming of the Diesel
12. The Chiefs and Chico
13. Decade of Uncertainty
14. The Southern Pacific Fiasco
15. Transformation
16. The Making of BNSF Railway
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index
About the author
¿Keith L. Bryant Jr. is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Akron. He is the author of five books, including
Culture in the American Southwest: The Earth, the Sky, the People.
Fred W. Frailey was a writer for
Trains magazine for four decades and is the author or coauthor of six books about railroads, including
Twilight of the Great Trains. He has been a writer or editor for the
Chicago Sun-Times and
Kansas City Star newspapers and for
U.S. News & World Report and
Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazines.
Summary
This new edition of the first comprehensive history of the financing, construction, growth, and management of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway includes nearly twenty-five more years of history.
