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Forging the "Bee Line" Railroad, 1848-1889 : The Rise and Fall of Hoosier Partisans and the Cleveland Clique /
In the 1830s, as the Trans Appalachian economy began to stir and Europe's Industrial Revolution reached its peak, concerned Midwesterners saw opportunities and risks. Success of the Erie Canal as a link to East Coast economic markets whetted the appetites of visionaries and entrepreneurs, who s...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kent, Ohio :
Kent State University Press,
[2016]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Forging the "Bee Line" Railroad, 1848-1889 : |b The Rise and Fall of Hoosier Partisans and the Cleveland Clique / |c Arthur Andrew Olson III. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Background and Acknowledgments; Railroad Abbreviations List; Preface; How the Bee Line Got Its Name; The Bee Line to Big Four Flowchart; The Atlantic and Great Western Railroads to Erie Railroad Flowchart; Timeline of the Bee Line Railroads and Involved Lines; Prologue: U.S. Transportation Policy and the Industrial Revolution: 1780s-1830s; The Dawn of Midwestern Railroading: An Indiana Example: 1832-1853; Push and Pull of the Cleveland Clique and Hoosier Partisans: 1853-1868. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a National Aspirations and Financial Chicanery: 1860-1874End of the Era: The Bee Line Fades from the Scene: 1874; Epilogue: Bee Line Destiny-Cornerstone of the Big Four Route: 1874-1889; Appendix A: Principal Characters List; Appendix B: Representative Bee Line Locomotive Images; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | |a In the 1830s, as the Trans Appalachian economy began to stir and Europe's Industrial Revolution reached its peak, concerned Midwesterners saw opportunities and risks. Success of the Erie Canal as a link to East Coast economic markets whetted the appetites of visionaries and entrepreneurs, who saw huge opportunities. Amid this perfect storm of technology, enterprise, finance, location, and timing arose some of the earliest railroads in the Midwest. By the late 1840s three such vision-driven railroad ventures had sprung to life. Two small railroads carrying goods to Midwestern markets--the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine in Indiana and the Bellefontaine and Indiana in Ohio--spawned early enthusiasm, but few citizens would look beyond the horizon. It was the admonition of Oliver H. Smith, founder of the Indiana line, who challenged the populace to look farther: "to decide whether the immense travel and business of the west should pass round or go through central Indiana." Soon, the two local lines would crystallize in the minds of people as the "Bee Line." In Cleveland, meanwhile, a clique of committed businessmen, bankers, and politicians came together to finance the most prosperous of all early Midwestern railroads, extending from Cleveland to Columbus. Their aspirations expanded to control the larger Midwestern market from Cleveland to St. Louis. First by loans and then by bond purchases, they quickly took over the "Bee Line." Hoosier partisans' independence, however, could not be easily brushed aside. Time and again they would frustrate the attempts of the Cleveland clique, exercising a degree of autonomy inconsistent with their dependent financial underpinnings. Ultimately, they acquiesced to the reality of their situation. After the Civil War, even the group from Cleveland fell victim to unscrupulous foreign and national financiers and manipulators who had taken their places on the boards of larger trunk lines expanding throughout the Midwest. Exhaustively researched and meticulously documented, Forging the "Bee Line" Railroad, 1848--1889 is the first comprehensive scholarly work on this most important of early Midwestern railroads. | ||
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