Sierra crossing : first roads to California /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1998.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Mountain wall, snow, basins, and rivers
- 2. Trans-Sierra transport before wheeled vehicles
- 3. Wagon trains across the Sierra
- 4. Local initiatives in road building
- 5. State government road measures
- 6. The distant prospect of railroads
- 7. The federal government builds west to California
- 8. Mail contracts and stagecoach service
- 9. A revival of interest in road construction in California
- 10. The central Pacific railroad
- Epilogue: Trans-Sierra roads after 1869
- Notes
- References
- Index.