Iowa Route - A History of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway

Don L. Hofsommer is Professor of History at St. Cloud State University and president of the Lexington Group. He is author of Off the Main Lines (IUP, 2013), Iowa's Railroads: An Album (with H. Roger Grant) (IUP, 2009), and Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland (IUP, 2005).

Sommario

1. A Grand Highway from St. Louis to St. Paul

2. The Grandest Railroad Project of the Age

3. Providence Helps Those Who Help Themselves

4. Dirt Began to Fly

5. Panic

6. A New Dawning

7. Palpably Invigorating Ozone

8. Flux

9. The Albert Lea Route

10. To the Pacific Coast by a Northwest Route?

11. On to Bismarck

12. The Favorite Albert Lea Route

13. The Heavy Hand of Regulation

14. Spirit Lake Country

15. Of Panic and Tramps

16. The Gay Nineties

17. Pulling and Hauling

18. To the Twin Cities

19. A Most Satisfactory Disposition

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Info autore

Don L. Hofsommer

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Don L Hofsommer, Don L. Hofsommer, Hofsommer Don L
• Editore: Indiana University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 09.03.2015
• EAN: 9780253014672
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01467-2
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Railroads Past and Present; Railroads Past and Present; Indiana University Press
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Veicoli, aerei , imbarcazioni, viaggi aerospaziali > Veicoli su rotaia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Fotografia, cinematografia, video, TV