The story of the western railroads

Riegel, Robert E. 1897-1983 (Author).

Summary: Includes information on the Central Pacific Railroad, the Union Pacific Railroad, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Pony Express, etc.

Record details

Physical Description: print
xv, 345 pages ; 20 cm.
Publisher: Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, 1964, ©1926.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-337).

Formatted Contents Note:

Beginning of railroads -- The first construction -- Federal aid -- State and local aid -- War Period -- The completion of the first transcontinental road -- Prosperity -- Transcontinental aspirations and the Panic of 1873 -- Depression and opposition -- Recovery -- The Gould system -- The completion of the southern transcontinental roads -- The completion of the northern transcontinental -- The end of an era -- The labor supply -- Labor organization -- Equipment -- The railroads and western settlement -- Regulation and the Interstate Commerce Act -- The reign of giants.