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

Francaviglia, Richard V.

 
9781607327783: Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1607327783 ISBN 13 : 9781607327783
Editeur : 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.

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Éditeur
Utah State University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1607327783
ISBN 13 
9781607327783
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
333
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Personne responsable
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