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| Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
| Prologue: The View from 29,000 Feet and Below | 1 | |
| 1 | Transportation Corridors Transform the West | 30 |
| 2 | When Railroads Ruled | 58 |
| 3 | Copper Connections and the Last Transcontinental Railroad | 88 |
| 4 | Roads Stretching from Farm to Market, but Seldom Beyond | 114 |
| 5 | The Emergence of New Corridors of Power | 137 |
| 6 | The Twentieth-Century Transportation Revolution | 161 |
| 7 | The New Overland Route | 189 |
| 8 | Hard Choices for Hard Times | 218 |
| 9 | Is This Trip Necessary? The Impact of World War II | 243 |
| 10 | Auto Euphoria and Other Postwar Enthusiasms | 270 |
| 11 | The Sky's the Limit | 295 |
| 12 | Reinventing the Railroads | 324 |
| Conclusion: The Space of Place | 354 | |
| Notes | 375 | |
| Sources of Images | 389 | |
| Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading | 397 | |
| Index | 411 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Thomas Wojtowicz
reviewed Going Places: Tranportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West (American West in the Twentieth Century Series) on March 26, 2012
Going Places: Tranportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West (American West in the Twentieth Century Series)
History of the wagon trains that blazed their way from Missouri to Oregon and California in the 1840s. Bagley uses a wealth of original sources to draw out exactly what the trip was like-from what people took, how the wagons were built to what they encountered along the way. He deals with the Bartlesby-Bidwell party and the Donners and reveals all sorts of interesting facts- that Indian attacks were seldom a problem, people walked alongside the wagons rather than riding in them and oxen were the preferred animal to pull the wagon. It's also determined that so many wagons went east to west that pasturage on the central plains was ruined for years afterward.
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Add Going Places: Tranportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West (American West in the Twentieth Century Series), It seems difficult even to imagine the modern West without reference to its planes, trains, and automobiles. Freeways define modern Los Angeles, as Route 66 still recalls the freedom of the open road. Seattle, long home to Boeing, gave birth to jetliners , Going Places: Tranportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West (American West in the Twentieth Century Series) to your collection on WonderClub |