Items related to Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit...

Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad - Softcover

Francaviglia, Richard V.

 
9781607327783: Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1607327783 ISBN 13: 9781607327783
Publisher: Utah State University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Francaviglia looks anew at the geographical-historical context of the driving of the golden spike in May 1869. He gazes outward from the site of the transcontinental railroad's completion—the summit of a remote mountain range that extends south into the Great Salt Lake. The transportation corridor that for the first time linked America's coasts gave this distinctive region significance, but it anchored two centuries of human activity linked to the area's landscape.

Francaviglia brings to that larger story a geographer's perspective on place and society, a railroad enthusiast's knowledge of trains, a cartographic historian's understanding of the knowledge and experience embedded in maps, and a desert lover's appreciation of the striking basin-and-range landscape that borders the Great Salt Lake.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Utah State University Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1607327783
ISBN 13 
9781607327783
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
333