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Across the Columbia Plain: Railroad Expansion in the Interior Northwest, 1885-1893 Paperback / softback - 1995
by Peter J. Lewty
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- Title Across the Columbia Plain: Railroad Expansion in the Interior Northwest, 1885-1893
- Author Peter J. Lewty
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition First Edition; F
- Condition New
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Washington State University Press, Pullman WA
- Date 1995-08-31
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Glossary, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780874221145
- ISBN 9780874221145 / 0874221145
- Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.98 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 2.49 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Library of Congress subjects Railroads - United States - History - 19th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94-39630
- Dewey Decimal Code 385.097
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From the rear cover
In just a few years of prosperity, between 1886 and 1891, a wave of railroad construction broke across the sparsely populated inland plain of the Pacific Northwest. Racing to secure strategic routes and sources of traffic, the railway promoters built an extensive and bewildering network of competing lines. Continuing the saga he commenced in To the Columbia Gateway: The Oregon Railway and the Northern Pacific, 1879-1884 (WSU Press, 1987), Peter Lewty describes the region's dramatic railroad boom in the years 1885 to 1893. Recreating the prevailing atmosphere of optimism and excitement, he traces the expansion of the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific systems in the interior Northwest, chronicles the construction of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern Railway, and presents a multi-faceted portrait of railway operations on the last frontier of American settlement.