First Telegraph Line Across the Continent: Charles Brown's 1861 Diary - Couverture souple

 
9780933307322: First Telegraph Line Across the Continent: Charles Brown's 1861 Diary
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0933307322 ISBN 13 : 9780933307322
Editeur : Nebraska State Historical Society, 2011

Synopsis

2012 Nebraska Book Award: Cover/Design/Illustration

The transcontinental telegraph was a remarkable technological feat that had major consequences for the West and the nation as a whole. Yet relatively little has been written about it.

Recently re-discovered in the Smithsonian Institution collections, this previously unpublished diary is the only known extensive source written about the day-to-day construction of one segment of the first transcontinental telegraph line.

Brown's lively narrative is filled with period detail about individuals, road ranches, attitudes toward Indians, public promotion of the spirit of Manifest Destiny, difficulties facing construction crews, the nature of frontier law enforcement, and even the issues of secession and Civil War.

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Éditeur
Nebraska State Historical Society
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0933307322
ISBN 13 
9780933307322
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
133
Éditeur
Mihelich Dennis N., Potter James E.
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