Gulf to Rockies : The Heritage of the Fort Worth and Denver-Colorado and Southern Railways, 1861-1898

Name: Gulf to Rockies : The Heritage of the Fort Worth and Denver-Colorado and Southern Railways, 1861-1898
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ISBN: 9780292727120

ISBN-10: 0292727127

ISBN-13: 9780292727120

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Richard C. Overton

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Gulf to Rockies is a chapter in the business and economic history of the American West and the story of two of the most colorful railroad builders of the nineteenth century.Throughout the 1860s the mineral treasures of Colorado were virtually inaccessible for lack of railroads. Even after a hectic decade of building in the 1870s, the state faced a new sort of isolation: every railroad crossing her borders was controlled by the Union Pacific or the Santa Fe. As a result, the Rocky Mountain region could not hope to compete with the Midwest for the business of the Atlantic seaboard.To remedy this situation, John Evans, former governor of Colorado, organized in 1881 a railroad to run southward…

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List price: $14.95
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English