Rival Rails The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad

Name: Rival Rails The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad
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ISBN: 9781400065615

ISBN-10: 1400065615

ISBN-13: 9781400065615

Edition: 2010

Authors: Walter R. Borneman

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From acclaimed historian Walter R. Borneman comes a dazzling account of the battle to build Americars"s transcontinental rail lines. Rival Rails is an action-packed epic of how an empire was born-and the remarkable men who made it happen. After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the country was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the corridors of the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago. In Rival Rails, Borneman lays out in compelling detail the sectional rivalries, contested routes, political posturing, and ambitious business dealings that unfolded as an increasing number of lines…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/28/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Walter R. Borneman is the author of "Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land", "1812: The War That Forged a Nation", and several books on the history of the western United States. He lives in Colorado.



List of Maps


Introduction: Railroad Battleground


Railroads and Railroaders: A Cast of Characters


Major Events in Building the Southwestern Transcontinental System



Opening Gambits (1853-18740)



Lines Upon the Map



Learning the Rails



An Interruption of War



Transcontinental By Any Name



The Santa Fe Joins the Fray



Straight West From Denver



"Why is it We Have So Many Bitter Enemies?"



Contested Empire (1874-1889)



Showdown At Yuma



Impasse At Raton



Battle Royal for the Gorge



Handshake At Deming



West Across Texas



Transcontinental At Last



Battling for California



Gould Again



To The Halls Of Montezuma



California For A Dollar



Santa Fe All the Way (1889-1909)



Making The Markets



Canyon Dreams And Schemes



The Boom Goes Bust



Still West From Denver



Top Of The Heap



Dueling Streamliners


Afterword: American Railroads in the Twenty-first Century


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index