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Book - The Transportation Frontier: Trans Mississippi West
If you have an interest in the history of the railroad then this book could indeed be for you. The full title on the cover reads: The Transportation Frontier: Trans-Mississippi West, 1865-1890 - Oscar Osburn Winther. It says: Histories Of The American Frontier - across the top. The cover illustration actually goes front to back and is of a town and railroad being built - land being cleared, the passenger train going through, people, etc. So, take a peak, this may be just the history book you're looking for.
This is a softcover book measuring approximately 7 1/4" X 10 3/8" X 7/8" with 224 pages of information, including the index, plus maps and illustrations.
As you open the book:
- On the inside of the cover it reads: Histories Of The American Frontier - Edited by Ray Allen Billington, and there is a list of (other) books.
- Then a page with: THE TRANSPORTATION FRONTIER
- Next is the title page with: THE TRANSPORTATION FRONTIER - Trans-Mississippi West - 1865 - 1890 - Oscar Osburn Winther - Indiana University - Holt, Rinehart and Winston - New York * Chicago * San Francisco * Toronto * London.
- Publishers - Copyright page: To Ingrid and Eric - Copyright 1964 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. - All rights reserved - Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-10639 - 03-042605 7 - Printed in the United States of America - 90123-45-9876543.
- The next page is the FOREWORD (pages v - viii) which starts out: "More than any other factor, transportation routes shaped both the direction and the ebb and flow of the three-century-long migrations that peopled the North American continent. New frontiers might beckon with their promises of fertile farm lands, virgin pasturage, and unexploited mineral or forest wealth. Men might be infected with wanderlust, or they might dream longingly of opportunities for prosperity, social progress and adventure that lay to the westward. Yet.......". Ray Allen Billington - The Huntington Library - January 1964
- Then the PREFACE (pages ix - x) which starts: "This book has been written to conform to the general framework of the Histories of the American Frontier series. As the title indicates, this study deals mainly with transportation west of the Mississippi River from the end of the Civil War to the passing of the American frontier." - Oscar Osburn Winther - Bloomington, Indiana - January 1964.
- Then - CONTENTS (page xi) as follows:
- Foreword - page v
- Preface - page ix
- List of Maps and Illustrations - page xiii
- 1. The Transportation Frontier, 1865 - page 1
- 2. The Persistence of the Overlanders - page 14
- 3. Teamsters on the Frontier - page 25
- 4. Stagecoaching as Frontier Enterprise - page 44
- 5. Overland by Stage - page 59
- 6. Steamboats on a Vanishing Frontier - page 74
- 7. Railroads Blanket the West - page 92
- 8. Laying the Track - page 105
- 9. Travel by Rail - page 120
- 10. Indians, Outlaws, and Wayfarers - page 134
- 11. Good Roads and the Passing of the Transportation Frontier - page 147
- Notes - page 165
- Bibliographical Notes - page 193
- Index - page 211
- There are 3 maps listed and 33 illustrations.
This book is what it says, a history of the transportation frontier, and ready to help, perhaps you, learn more about it.
This is a mighty informative book. It is in really quite good condition. This book comes AS IS.
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