Rails Across the Ranches

Nicholson, Loren

ISBN 10: 0913548723 / ISBN 13: 9780913548721

Published by Valley Publishers, 1980

About this Item

197pp. Signed and dated with a thoughtful inscription by Nicholson on warmly toned front endpage. Text is unmarked on bright pages with b/w photos. Green cloth boards are crisply pointed with gold gilt lettering. Binding is tight and square, hinges are secure. Jacket is glossy and unclipped with minor edge wear.

Seller Inventory # 82580

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rails Across the Ranches
• Publisher: Valley Publishers
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913548723
• ISBN 13: 9780913548721
• Binding: 4To Hardcover
• Edition: Signed.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • RAILROAD

About this title

Synopsis

Fascinating and detailed history of San Luis Obispo County from the founding of the missions, detailing how the isolated area was transformed over the course of 40 years by the (often slow) coming of the Southern Pacific's coastal railway, the Pacific Coast Railway. The individuals who helped to build the new city -- such as J. P. Andrews, Ah Louis, and Chauncey Hatch Phillips -- are vividly depicted as are the SP's machinations as it drove south. With charts showing the disposition of the great ranchos. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and numerous maps. With endnotes. 197 pages with index.