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The Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad: An Empire in the Making, 1862-1879
by Augustus J. Veenendaal
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press (1999-09)
ISBN: 0875802524
EAN: 9780875802527
Dewy Decimal #: 385.0973
Hardcover: 178 pages
Condition: New
Comments: Unopened, still in publisher's original shrink wrap. Hardcover with dustjacket. Book & Dustjacket are in Unused Condition.
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Product Description
Veenendaal (Institute of Netherlands History, the Hague) traces the company from its beginnings as a small carrier connecting St. Paul and Minneapolis with outlying towns, to when it was bought by railroad tycoon James J. Hill under whom, as the Great Northern Railway, it reached the Pacific Ocean. He describes such aspects as laying track, meeting the schedule, making payroll, injury and ruin, and the general shortage of everything on the frontier. Of course he includes the many old photographs without which a railroad history would not get off the dime.
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