Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (722 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0295975350 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 359 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Railroad Signatures across the Pacific Northwest is a masterful combination of social, cultural, intellectual, and business history, an examination of the life and times of the railroad, not just its construction and operation. I expected ties and spikes and locomotives and watered stock, and got, in addition, a wonderful parade of how the railroad actually reached into the life of the Northwest, molded its communities and its citizens, and forever changed and shaped our images of the region. (Alfred Runte, author of Trains of Discovery: Western Railroads and the National Parks)
Harriman--whose egos, ambitions, and competitiveness shaped the railroads that in turn shaped the region. The exuberant posters and brochures that the railroads published in order to lure settlers and tourists to the region are reproduced in color.. Hill, and E. The book includes more than 200 photographs, most previously unpublished, that document the trains, towns, people, and landscape of the Northwest. The desert expanses were so great and the forests so dense in the Pacific Northwest that until the railroads scrawled their signatures across the land, it was doomed to remain an array of scattered, isolated settlements. But with the arrival of the twin ribbons of steel came enormous and lasting social and economic changes. Remembering the trains that ran by his boyhood home, Carlos Schwantes says, "Never once did it occur to me to ponder whether we lived on the right or wrong side of the tracks. I only felt fortunate t
Schwantes is director of the Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies and professor of history at the University of Idaho. His numerous publications include Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia (University of Washington Press), Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey, and The Pacific Northwest: A
Not for me. OZ Has Spoken! Great layout, attractive, visually appealing but historical data and the operation of the area's railroad is lost in the perfesserese of the author who seems to be well qualified in social, labor and financial history that conforms to his own particular perspective. After reading this, one does not seem to come away with a clear overview of rail history, development and opera. Visually stunning! 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.. Railroad Signatures Across The Pacific Northwest The author takes you on a great ride across the Northwest showing a great correlation between the railroads and everyday living in the Pacific Northwest. From the heros to the crooksthe importance of each element of society in the formation of this great region.An easy book to reada hard book to put down.