Iowa's Railroads

An Album
Herausgeber: Hofsommer, Don L; Grant, H Roger

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

At one point in time, no place in Iowa was more than a few miles from an active line of rail track. In this splendid companion volume to Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland (IUP, 2005), H. Roger Grant and Don L. Hofsommer explore the pivotal role that rail

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 216mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1063g
• ISBN-13: 9780253220738
• ISBN-10: 0253220734
• Artikelnr.: 25683483

Autorenporträt

H. Roger Grant is Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History at Clemson University. He is author of 25 books, including Visionary Railroader (IUP, 2008). Grant has written company histories of the Chicago & North Western, the Chicago Great Western, the Erie Lackawanna, the Georgia & Florida, and the Wabash railroads. He lives in Central, South Carolina. Don L. Hofsommer is Professor of History at St. Cloud State University and president of the Lexington Group. He is author of Katy Northwest (IUP, 1999) and Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland (IUP, 2005). A native of Iowa, he now resides in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Age of Steam
Chapter 2: Under the Wire
Chapter 3: Down at the Depot
Chapter 4: Shipping by Rail
Chapter 5: Working on the Railroad
Chapter 6: Diesel Revolution
Chapter 7: In Recent Times