Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest - Hardcover

Schwantes, Carlos A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0295972106 ISBN 13: 9780295972107

Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr, 1993

Synopsis

Covers the impact of the railroad on the Pacific Northwest states, tracing its history from pre-railroad transportation to the completion of the Northern Pacific line in 1883

About this title

About the Author:

Carlos A. Schwantes is director of the Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies and professor of history at the University of Idaho. His numerous publications include Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia (University of Washington Press), Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey, and The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History.

Review:

Railroad Signatures across the Pacific Northwest is a masterful combination of social, cultural, intellectual, and business history, an examination of the life and times of the railroad, not just its construction and operation. I expected ties and spikes and locomotives and watered stock, and got, in addition, a wonderful parade of how the railroad actually reached into the life of the Northwest, molded its communities and its citizens, and forever changed and shaped our images of the region.

(Alfred Runte, author of Trains of Discovery: Western Railroads and the National Parks)

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0295972106
• ISBN 13: 9780295972107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360