Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910
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Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. Railroad Crossing is the story of what happened... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520082141
ISBN13:9780520082144
Release Date:March 1994
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:278 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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Asia History Middle East Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Railroads State & Local TransportationCustomer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
In looking at the Southern Pacific railroad from the perspective of the various people who resisted or opposed it, Deverell tells an intriguing story. Rather than the triumphalist approach of so much railroad history (along with their mixture of both admiring and condemming the "robber barons"), Deverell lets us see and evaluate the changes the railroad brought to California-both physically and mentally. Along the way, he takes a fresh look at the Progressives' anti-railroad politics, and the confrontation at Mussel Slough-the violent incident around with Frank Norris wrote his masterful, sweeping "Novel of California," The Octopus. This is first-rate California history.
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