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050 00 $aHE2751$b.B67 2010
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100 1 $aBorneman, Walter R.,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78016544
245 10 $aRival rails :$bthe race to build America's greatest transcontinental railroad /$cWalter R. Borneman.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $axxiii, 406 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gPart I.$tOpening Gambits (1853-1874) -- $g1.$tLines Upon the Map -- $g2.$tLearning the Rails -- $g3.$tAn Interruption of War -- $g4.$tTranscontinental by Any Name -- $g5.$tThe Santa Fe Joins the Fray -- $g6.$tStraight West From Denver -- $g7.$t"Why is it we have so Many Bitter Enemies?" -- $gPart II.$tContested Empire (1874-1889) -- $g8.$tShowdown At Yuma -- $g9.$tImpasse at Raton -- $g10.$tBattle Royal for the Gorge -- $g11.$tHandshake at Deming -- $g12.$tWest Across Texas -- $g13.$tTranscontinental at Last -- $g14.$tBattling for California -- $g15.$tGould Again -- $g16.$tTo the Halls of Montezuma -- $g17.$tCalifornia for a Dollar -- $gPart III.$tSanta Fe All the Way (1889-1909) -- $g18.$tMaking the Markets -- $g19.$tCanyon Dreams and Schemes -- $g20.$tThe Boom Goes Bust -- $g21.$tStill West From Denver -- $g22.$tTop of the Heap -- $g23.$tDueling Streamliners.
520 1 $a"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 pushed their way across the country." "Borneman brings to life the legendary business geniuses and so-called robber barons who made millions and fought the elements---and one another---to move America, including William Jackson Palmer, whose leadership of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway relied on innovative narrow gauge trains that could climb steeper grades and take tighter curves; Collis P. Huntington of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific lines, a magnate insatiably obsessed with trais---and who was not above bribing congressmen to satisfy his passion; Edward Payson Ripley, visionary president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, whose fiscal conservatism and smarts brought the industry back from the brink; and Jay Gould, ultrasecretive strong-armer and one-man powerhouse." "In addition, Borneman captures the herculean efforts required to construct these roads---the laborers who did the back-breaking work, boring tunnels through mountains and throwing bridges across unruly rivers, the brakemen who ran atop moving cars, the tracklayers crushed and killed by runaway trains. From backroom deals in Washington, D.C., to armed robberies of trains in the wild deserts, from glorified cattle cars to streamliners and Super Chiefs, all the great incidents and innovations of a mighty American era are re-created with unprecedented power in Rival Rails."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aRailroads$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010109498
650 0 $aRailroads$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
852 00 $boff,bus$hHE2751$i.B67 2010