| Across the Columbia Plain: Railroad Expansion in the Interior Northwest, 1885-1893 Contributor(s): Lewty, Peter J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0874221145 ISBN-13: 9780874221145 Publisher: Washington State University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1995 Annotation: In just a few years of prosperity, between 1886 and 1891, a wave of railroad construction broke across the sparsely populated inland plain of the Pacific Northwest. Racing to secure strategic routes and sources of traffic, the railway promoters built an extensive and bewildering network of competing lines. Continuing the saga he commenced in To the Columbia Gateway: The Oregon Railway and the Northern Pacific, 1879-1884 (WSU Press, 1987), Peter Lewty describes the region's dramatic railroad boom in the years 1885 to 1893. Recreating the prevailing atmosphere of optimism and excitement, he traces the expansion of the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific systems in the interior Northwest, chronicles the construction of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern Railway, and presents a multi-faceted portrait of railway operations on the last frontier of American settlement. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Railroads - History - History | United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (or, Wa) |
| Dewey: 385.097 |
| LCCN: 94-39630 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.28 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest |
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| Publisher Description: Continuing the saga he started in To the Columbia Gateway: The Oregon Railway and the Northern Pacific, 1879-1884, Peter J. Lewty traces the rivalry and expansion of the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific railway systems in the interior Northwest, 1885-93. |