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A social and environmental history of the influence of the railraods on the development of the American West, filled with contemporary accounts, illustrations, and photographs

Table of Contents

Foreword by John Neal Hoover
Preface and Acknowledgments
The Magician's Rod: Railroads, the West, and Manifest Destiny
Space Race; or, A Tale of Rival Cities
Tracking a Transformation
Lords of Creation
Manifest Destinies: The Railroad West and the Modern World
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Carlos Schwantes is St. Louis Mercantile Library Endowed Professor of Transportation Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, specializing in the history of the twentieth-century American West. He is author of Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West and Railroad Signatures across the Pacific Northwest. James P. Ronda holds the H. G. Barnard Chair in Western American History at the University of Tulsa, specializing in the history of exploration of the American West. He is the author of Beyond Lewis and Clark: The Army Explores the West and Jefferson's West: A Journey with Lewis and Clark.

Reviews

Picture printed in The Times Literary Supplement, 19th September 2008 : "A Brochure cover promoting grain-growing in western North Dakota"