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The excitement of the frontier comes alive in this history of early-day railroading in the Pacific Northwest. Combining narrative with fascinating photographs and maps, the author successfully conveys a sense of the enormous time, money, and hard work required to build the first Pacific Northwest rail lines. To the Columbia Gateway covers the origins of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Oregon Railway and Navigation companies, the rise and fall of Henry Villard's first empire, and the completion of transcontinental tracks that converged on the Columbia Gateway in the late nineteenth century. Tales of personal sacrifice and hardship, for both laborers and railroad entrepreneurs, echo through Lewty's account of this formative era in Pacific Northwest history.
Across the Columbia Plain
Railroad Expansion in the Interior Northwest, 1885-1893
Häftad, Engelska, 1995
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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 started in To the Columbia Gateway: The Oregon Railway and the Northern Pacific, 1879-1884, author Peter J. Lewty describes the relationships between rival railroad companies and traces the expansion of the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific railway systems in the interior Northwest between 1885 and 1893. Recreating the prevailing atmosphere of optimism and excitement, he chronicles the construction of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern Railway and provides a lively portrait of railway operations on the last frontier of American settlement.Extensively documented and fast moving, Across the Columbia Plain is required reading for railroad enthusiasts and Northwest historians.