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Always a cowboy : judge Wilson McCarthy and the rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad /
Cowboy, judge, federal official, then business executive, Wilson McCarthy mirrored change and growth in the twentieth-century West. Leading the Denver & Rio Grande back from the brink saved a vital link in the national transportation system. The D & RGW ran over and through the scenic Rockie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; One: Happy, Optimistic, and Good Company: Charles McCarthy Goes West; Two: A Prisoner for Conscience Sake: The Pen, the Railroad, and the Lord's Vineyard; Three: We Have Always Been Sweethearts: Home on the Canadian Range; Four: No Reversals: The Rapid Rise of Judge McCarthy; Five: No Fairy Godmother: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Six: The Tug of the West: A California Interlude; Seven: Dangerous & Rapidly Getting Worse: How to Ruin a Railroad, or the Checkered History of the Denver & Rio Grande Western.