High Road to Promontory: Building the Central Pacific (Now the Southern Pacific) Across the High Sierra
by Kraus, George
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Palo Alto, CA: American West Publishing Company, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full maroon cloth boards show edge wear and small nibbles on one corner. Tears on price-clipped dust jacket. 318 pages. Many b&w photos.
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- Bookseller
- Pistil Books Online (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 149769
- Title
- High Road to Promontory: Building the Central Pacific (Now the Southern Pacific) Across the High Sierra
- Author
- Kraus, George
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- American West Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Palo Alto, CA
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- George Kraus, Cenral Pacific Railroad, Sierra Nevada, Desert, Physical Barriers, political Problems, Financial problems, Railroad Building, Pronontory Utah, first hand Accounts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Railroads;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.