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Crossroads of a continent : Missouri railroads, 1851-1921 /

"Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Miss...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hansen, Peter A. (Autor), Hofsommer, Donovan L. (Autor), Schwantes, Carlos A., 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
Colección:Railroads past and present.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a When geography defined strategy: commercial empires and Missouri's first railroad -- Dreams and schemes: Missouri as America's transportation frontier -- The formative 1850s: launching Missouri's first railroads -- Divided Missouri: railroads and civil war disruption -- Railroad rivals: Saint Louis and the rise of Chicago -- Seeking Missouri: forging a midwestern railroad network -- The masterpiece of creation: Kansas City courts the railroads -- The search for order: standardization and system building -- Reorienting the compass of opportunity: the quest for the southwest -- Making connections: running trains and building traffic -- Trouble on the tracks: railroads and regulation -- From many to one: Saint Louis union station -- Railroad visionaries: Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell -- Meet me in Saint Louis: railroads and the 1904 World's Fair -- Limiteds and locals: hotels on wheels and slow trains to everywhere -- The heart of a big small town: Kansas City union station -- Missouri-made: from streetcars and interurbans to doodlebugs and streamliners -- Local matters: show-me short lines -- Watershed: regulation, World War I, and the US railroad administration -- Afterword: a time of transition. 
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