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Trains Across the Continent : North American Railroad History
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Trains Across the Continent : North American Railroad History Paperback - 2001

by Daniels, Rudolph

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Indiana University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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  • Title Trains Across the Continent : North American Railroad History
  • Author Daniels, Rudolph
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
  • Date 2001-01-22
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4980466-6
  • ISBN 9780253214119 / 0253214114
  • Weight 2.01 lbs (0.91 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.84 x 8.69 x 0.56 in (27.53 x 22.07 x 1.42 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Railroads - United States - History, Railroads - Canada - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00027801
  • Dewey Decimal Code 385.097

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European settlement of North America began with the Age of Discovery during the late 1400s.

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About the author

Rudolph Daniels is Assistant Dean and Department Chair of Railroad Operations Technology at Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City. He was born in Trenton, N.J. and studied the oboe with some of the world's leading performers. He graduated from St. Francis College, Loretto, PA. He went on to Penn State University studying Russian/Soviet foreign policy, history, and Russian language and literature. He received his Ph.D. in 1971, and later developed his dissertation into a book: V. N. Tatishchev: Guardian of the Petrine Revolution. Daniels taught Russian studies at various colleges in Dubuque, Iowa before moving to W. Germany in 1974, where he taught English and French. Over the course of 22 years, he became Dept. Chair of History and Poli Sci and also taught woodwinds and music lit. classes. In 1996, he became Dept. Chair of the Behavioral Sciences at WITCC, where he began teaching courses in Railroad Operations Technology. Trains across the Continent was developed as a textbook for his classes at WITCC.