books: nebraska railroad

books: nebraska railroad

books:

Nebraska railroad

History of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway

Keith L. Bryant Jr.

University of Nebraska Press, 1992

A Lasting History
Bryant, a historian of American business and University Dean, originally wrote this book in 1974 and it has been reprinted because of its timelessness. The book is a history text with limited illustrations. In very readable fashion, Bryant tells the story of the Santa ...

The Story of the Western Railroads: From 1852 Through the Reign of the Giants
Robert Edgar Riegel

University of Nebraska Press, 1976

On December 23, 1852, the first train on the first railroad west of the Mississippi River steamed proudly from St. Louis to Cheltenham?the immense distance of five miles. In that moment of exaltation, writes Robert Edgar Riegel, "flags waved, bands played, and orators prophesied the flowering of the West under the beneficent influence of the steam ...

Seven Faces
Max Brand

University of Nebraska Press, 1998

Police detective Angus Campbell, a dour and methodical Scottish American policeman, cordially disliked his partner, the ebullient and overweight Irish cop Patrick O?Rourke. And the feeling was cordially reciprocated by O?Rourke. Both were annoyed?but not really concerned?about orders to guard the frantic millionaire John Cobb on a late-night ...

Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West, 1863

Roger Pickenpaugh

University of Nebraska Press, 1998

2 Corps head West
Mr. Pickenpaugh's book deal with the transfer of the XI and XII Corps from the Army of the Potomac to the Western Theater, during the crisis the Army of the Cumberland faced in Chattanooga after the Battle of Chickamauga. The author does a fine job setting up the ...

Heartland (Nebraska)

Greg McDonnell

Boston Mills Press, 1993

Contemporary railroading in America's heartland
A wonderful book of color photos taken mostly in the eighties and early nineties of railroad activity in Michegan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. There some historical photos from the fifties and sixties, including a super one (page 27) from 1956 taken at ...

A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad

John Hoyt Williams

University of Nebraska Press, 1996

Well-researched, interesting account
This book relates the economic, technological and political significance of the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. The subject is complex, yet the author's narrative style, while not lacking in facts, makes this volume the most readable of the serious ...

Railroad Atlas: Prairies West - Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma (SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North ...

Steam Powered Publishers, 2002

The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad: Rebel of the Rockies (Yale Western Americana Series, 2.)

Robert G. Athearn

University of Nebraska Press, 1977

A rebel's rebel
Given free rein to investigate anything about the company, its operations, finances, and history, Athearn uncovered some interesting tidbits. Although sponsored by the D&RGW, this book is an unbiased review of the legal wrangles which shaped the railroad, as well as of ...

Union Pacific Country

Robert G. Athearn

University of Nebraska Press, 1976

Bottom up view of RR
Earlier works on the history of the first transcontinental railroad by Oscar Lewis and Wesley Griswold, views the story in terms of the top executives who managed the two competing railroads. In contrast Robert Athearn's Union Pacific Country traces the story from the ...

Historic Railroads of Nebraska (Images of Rail)
Michael M. Bartels, James J. Reisdorff

Arcadia Publications, 2002

The advance of Union Pacific Railroad tracklayers across Nebraska was part of Americaís great adventure of the 19th century. It marked the beginning of the era of the ìiron horseî in Nebraskaóa time when the whistle of an approaching train became synonymous with prosperity and contact with the outside world. ÝÝHistoric Railroads of Nebraska takes ...