Iron Road To The West

Author : Derek Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1550178385

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Iron Road West by Derek Hayes Pdf

British Columbia wouldn't exist without the railway; the province was brought into the Canadian Confederation in 1871 in exchange for the promise of a transcontinental line to the West Coast. It was the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1886 that set off economic development in the province, created the city of Vancouver and spurred others to build competing lines. In Iron Road West, Derek Hayes charts the development of the province through its railway lines, using a wealth of photographs and other visuals to show how rails were laid through the wild terrain that characterized much of British Columbia. As railways revolutionized the province, they inevitably incited fierce competition and personal hatreds, creating an exciting frontier-like environment that Hayes describes in vivid detail. The book also covers the emergence of the modern freight railway in British Columbia, including fully automated and computerized trains. An extensive section details our railway legacy, including preserved railways, locomotives and facilities that can still be visited today. Prolifically illustrated, Iron Road West will fascinate not only railway enthusiasts, but anyone with an interest in the history of the province.

Author : David Haward Bain
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496230485

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The Old Iron Road by David Haward Bain Pdf

The award-winning author of "Empire Express" retraces the route of the first transcontinental railroad.

Author : Simon Cordery
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253019127

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The Iron Road in the Prairie State by Simon Cordery Pdf

In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts of capital and labor. A nationwide market resulted, and the Windy City became the site of opportunities and challenges that remain to this day. In this first-of-its-kind history, full of entertaining anecdotes and colorful characters, Simon Cordery describes the explosive growth of Illinois railroads and its impact on America. Cordery shows how railroading in Illinois influenced railroad financing, the creation of a national economy, and government regulation of business. Cordery's masterful chronicle of rail development in Illinois from 1837 to 2010 reveals how the state's expanding railroads became the foundation of the nation's rail network.

Author : David Haward Bain
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496235176

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The Old Iron Road by David Haward Bain Pdf

In the summer of 2000 David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America’s past. Spiritually, their journey began on a Kansas trail where the author’s grandmother was born in a covered wagon in 1889. Between the Missouri River and the Golden Gate, they retraced the entire route of the first transcontinental railroad and large stretches of the Oregon and California trails, and the equally colorful old Lincoln Highway. Following vanished iron rails and wagon wheel ruts, bumping down backroads and main streets, they discovered the deep, restless, uniquely American spirit of adventure that connects our past to our present. A superb writer and an exacting researcher, Bain conjures up a marvelous sense of coming unstuck in time as he lingers in the ghost towns and battlegrounds, prairies and river ports, trainyards, museums, deserts, and diners that line his cruise west to California. Bain encounters a fascinating cast of characters, both historic and contemporary, as well as memories of his grandparents and the journeys that shaped his own heritage. Writing in the tradition of William Least Heat-Moon and Ian Frazier, and with an engaging warmth and a deep grasp of history all his own, Bain has fashioned a quintessentially American journey.

Author : John F. Stover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 0231040466

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Iron Road to the West by John F. Stover Pdf

Author : Kenneth J. Winkle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521526183

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The Politics of Community by Kenneth J. Winkle Pdf

Winkle explores the influence of migration, as they all emerged before the Civil War.

Author : Hugh Aylmer Dempsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011186478

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The CPR West by Hugh Aylmer Dempsey Pdf

Author : Robert G. Angevine
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0804742391

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The Railroad and the State by Robert G. Angevine Pdf

This book examines the complex and changing relationship between the U.S. Army and American railroads during the nineteenth century.

Author : William D. Middleton
Publisher : Railroads Past and Present (Pa
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0253223601

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Landmarks on the Iron Road by William D. Middleton Pdf

"This book, for the first time, calls adequate attention to the physical plant over which railroads operate - the roadbeds, tracks, bridges, and tunnels, subjects that are often taken for granted. It is a book no rail fan or student of engineering can be without."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Meljean Brook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101444085

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The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook Pdf

After freeing England from Horde control, Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire. And when Detective Mina Wentworth enters his dangerous world to investigate a mysterious death, Rhys intends to make her his next conquest.

Author : Kenneth M. Stampp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199729036

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America in 1857 by Kenneth M. Stampp Pdf

It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Mormon governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northern Republicans and abolitionists with the Dred Scott decision ("a breathtaking example of judicial activism"). And when a proslavery minority in Kansas Territory tried to foist a proslavery constitution on a large antislavery majority, President Buchanan reneged on a crucial commitment and supported the minority, a disastrous miscalculation which ultimately split the Democratic party in two. In America in 1857, eminent American historian Kenneth Stampp offers a sweeping narrative of this eventful year, covering all the major crises while providing readers with a vivid portrait of America at mid-century. Stampp gives us a fascinating account of the attempt by William Walker and his band of filibusters to conquer Nicaragua and make it a slave state, of crime and corruption, and of street riots by urban gangs such as New York's Dead Rabbits and Bowery Boys and Baltimore's Plug Uglies and Blood Tubs. But the focus continually returns to Kansas. He examines the outrageous political frauds perpetrated by proslavery Kansans, Buchanan's calamitous response and Stephen Douglas's break with the President (a rare event in American politics, a major party leader repudiating the president he helped elect), and the whirl of congressional votes and dramatic debates that led to a settlement humiliating to Buchanan--and devastating to the Democrats. 1857 marked a turning point, at which sectional conflict spun out of control and the country moved rapidly toward the final violent resolution in the Civil War. Stampp's intensely focused look at this pivotal year illuminates the forces at work and the mood of the nation as it plummeted toward disaster.

Author : Hon-Lun Yang,Michael Saffle
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472130313

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China and the West by Hon-Lun Yang,Michael Saffle Pdf

A groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume exploring the phenomenon of the "Westernization" of contemporary Chinese music

Author : David M. Lampton,Selina Ho,Cheng-Chwee Kuik
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520976160

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Rivers of Iron by David M. Lampton,Selina Ho,Cheng-Chwee Kuik Pdf

What China’s infamous railway initiative can teach us about global dominance. In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled what would come to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a global development strategy involving infrastructure projects and associated financing throughout the world, including Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. While the Chinese government has framed the plan as one promoting transnational connectivity, critics and security experts see it as part of a larger strategy to achieve global dominance. Rivers of Iron examines one aspect of President Xi Jinping’s “New Era”: China’s effort to create an intercountry railway system connecting China and its seven Southeast Asian neighbors (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). This book illuminates the political strengths and weaknesses of the plan, as well as the capacity of the impacted countries to resist, shape, and even take advantage of China’s wide-reaching actions. Using frameworks from the fields of international relations and comparative politics, the authors of Rivers of Iron seek to explain how domestic politics in these eight Asian nations shaped their varying external responses and behaviors. How does China wield power using infrastructure? Do smaller states have agency? How should we understand the role of infrastructure in broader development? Does industrial policy work? And crucially, how should competing global powers respond?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : UCAL:$C5001

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Federal Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wu Cheng'en
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789812298898

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Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en Pdf

The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!