Table of Contents
Preface to the 1996 Edition
Preface to the 1984 Edition
Chapter One: A. B. Stickney Builds a Railroad: The Minnesota & Northwestern, 1883-1887
Chapter Two: The Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City, and the Formation of the Chicago Great Western, 1887- 1892
Chapter Three: Running the Maple Leaf Route, 1892-1904
Chapter Four: Years of Growth, 1895-1904
Chapter Five: Reorganization, Rehabilitation, and Recuperation: The Samuel M. Felton Years, 1908-1929
Chapter Six: Scandal, Depression, and War, 1929-1948
Chapter Seven: The Deramus Era, 1948-1957
Chapter Eight: The Final Decade, 1957-1968
Afterword
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

H. Roger Grant, Professor of History at Clemson University, is author of 23 books, most of them on railroad history. His earlier company histories cover the Chicago & North Western, the Chicago Great Western, the Erie Lackawanna, and the Wabash railroads.

Reviews

"A fine, engaging, and enlightening study of a corporate underdog's struggle to survive."
-Railroad History
"Grant tells a good story. His narrative is balanced between the factual, the anecdotal, and the broader issues."—Technology & Culture
"A thorough, well-written study of building and running a major midwestern 'little' railroad."
-Journal of American History