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Author: Gordon H. Chang
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1328618579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuangdong -- Gold Mountain -- Central Pacific -- Foothills -- The High Sierra -- The Summit -- The Strike -- Truckee -- The Golden Spike -- Beyond Promontory.
Author: Kathryn Yusoff
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Published: 2018-11-02
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781517907532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo geology is neutral. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, this book examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. The author initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between feminist black theory, geography, and the earth sciences, addressing the politics of the Anthropocene within the context of race, materiality, deep time, and the afterlives of geology.
Author: Robert R. Dowty
Publisher: Western National Parks Association
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781877856433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDowty, master mechanic for the locomotives at Golden Spike National Historic Site, recounts the painstaking, five-year process of recreating the steam locomotives that met at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869 for the ceremony marking completion of America's first transcontinental railroad. Dozens of duotone photos document the project.
Author: Walter Barlow Stevens
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 810
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard White
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0393342379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review The transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, remade the landscape of the West, and opened new ways of life and work. Their discriminatory rates sparked a new antimonopoly politics. The transcontinentals were pivotal actors in the making of modern America, but the triumphal myths of the golden spike, Robber Barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.
Author: Kenton Forrest
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780918654311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles M. Schulz
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2004-10-26
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 0060766603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Judy Yung
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 970
ISBN-13: 0520243099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering a textured history of the Chinese in America since their arrival during the California Gold Rush, this work includes letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs. It provides an insight into immigration, work, family and social life, and the longstanding fight for equality and inclusion.
Author: Gerald M. Best
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn picture and text this book tells of the locomotives involved in the building of the first transcontinental railroad and its completion with the driving of a golden spike into a laurel tie at Promontory Utah, May 10, 1869. The rolling stock is described; the locomotive builders too long neglected, are presented and the writer brings to the reader interested in the Pioneer West, many "happenings" along the line which have hitherto not been published. This book also includes many rare and unpublished photographs of construction times, locomotives, and scenes along the route by such acknowledged cameramen of the time as Andrew J. Russell, S. ). Sedgwick, Charles 11. Savage, and Alfred A. Hart. There are maps, timetables and documentary reproductions, a complete roster of motive power of the Central Pacific to 1891 mid the Union Pacific to 1885 and scale model drawings of Central Pacific No. 60 Jupiter and Union Pacific No. 119.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 36
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