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Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest
by Carlos A. Schwantes
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr (1993-10)
ISBN: 0295972106
EAN: 9780295972107
Dewy Decimal #: 385.09795
Hardcover: 360 pages
Condition: New
Comments: Unopened, still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Hardcover with dustjacket. Book & Dustjacket are in Unused Condition.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Demonstrates that the railroads profoundly affected the way people lived, how they adjusted to the new opportunities or threats that swift and cheap transportation provided. In short, how they viewed the world.This book is for everyone fascinated by trains and their nineteenth-century opening of the great Northwest. With cases of pictures never before published this book tracks the stories of families lured to settle in the west, revelations about railroad buccaneers, and breathtaking engineering feats of bridges over daunting gorges - Gene Shalit, The Today Show, NBC.
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Customer Reviews
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Visually stunning!
Rating  (4)
Date: 2000-04-22
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
One of my favorite railroad history books, filled with information and numerous prints in color and black and white. The reproduction posters and advertising media is some of the best I've seen for a regional book. It is a great book to sit down with for an hour or a day, easy to read bits or chapters. Good historical information, well written.
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