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Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad - Tapa blanda

Francaviglia, Richard V.

 
9781607327783: Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad
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ISBN 10: 1607327783 ISBN 13: 9781607327783
Editorial: Utah State University Press, 2019

Sinopsis

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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Editorial
Utah State University Press
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1607327783
ISBN 13 
9781607327783
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
333
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