Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : MetroBooks (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781567994780
The Central Pacific -- Trains across the Plains -- Railroading in Colorado -- Empires of the North -- Snow wars -- Wrecks and robberies.
Author : Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : Life in the Old West
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778701026
Filled with hopes and dreams, the first immigrants to the west loaded up their wagons and headed out to the frontier in search of a new life. Children will learn about the difficult journey by wagon train and how settlers arrived at their final destination.
Author : R. Michael Wilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1461748488
During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures made train robbery a capital crime. A few of the hundreds of train robberies stand out as thrilling and dangerous affairs, and the greatest of these (15-20) are included in this book.
Author : W.C. Jameson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1493066633
What sort of person undertakes to rob a multi-ton train surging down a set of rails at high speed? For the Old West’s most famous outlaws, including Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Dalton Gang, and Black Jack Ketchum, it was as much about the thrill of the crime as the riches to be won, thumbing their noses at the authorities, and getting away with their crimes more often than not. These men, and at least one woman, were dare devils, rule breakers, adventurers, and rebels. In addition to their train robberies, they led colorful, dramatic, and dangerous lives. The Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists profiles sixteen noted train robbers (or train robbing gangs) along with the details of each their forty-seven hold-ups. The mechanics of each of their train robberies—planning, execution, and escape—are dissected and discussed. Pertinent background information relating to each outlaw/gang is included as well as what became of them following their train-robbery days.
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2001-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743203173
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author : David Rickman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486250016
37 detailed illustrations, informative captions.
Author : Stephen G. Hyslop
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 142621555X
"From Lewis and Clark's epic 1803 expedition to the showmanship of Buffalo Bill, the story of the American West is epic in scope, full of amazing tales of tragedy and triumph ... Illustrated with ... photographs and ... maps, [this book] is [a] ... history of a time and place that forever lives in legend"--
Author : Richard White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0393082601
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review The transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, remade the landscape of the West, and opened new ways of life and work. Their discriminatory rates sparked a new antimonopoly politics. The transcontinentals were pivotal actors in the making of modern America, but the triumphal myths of the golden spike, Robber Barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.
Author : Peter F. Copeland
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2008-04-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486466795
Cowboys, desperados, prospectors, and pioneers abound in this big book of coloring fun. Packed with captivating details, it features 118 full-page illustrations of dramatic historical events and real-life characters.
Author : Marylin Irvin Holt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803235977
"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."—Library Journal
