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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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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2022]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Hansen, Peter A., |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Crossroads of a Continent : |b Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 / |c Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes. |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Railroads past and present | |
| 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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 Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 700 | 1 | |a Hofsommer, Donovan L., |e author. | |
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