| To the Columbia Gateway Contributor(s): Lewty, Peter J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0874220297 ISBN-13: 9780874220292 Publisher: Washington State University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Railroads - History - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 385.097 |
| LCCN: 87021041 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.03" W x 9" (0.94 lbs) 202 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Geographic Orientation - Oregon - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To the Columbia Gateway captures the excitement of the nineteenth-century railroad frontier. Peter J. Lewty describes the origins of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Oregon Railway and Navigation companies, the rise and fall of Henry Villard's first transportation empire, and the completion of the transcontinental tracks that converged on the Columbia Gateway in the 1880s. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lewty, Peter J.: - Peter Lewty received his formal education in England and has been a mining engineer living in Powassan, Ontario. |