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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Don Russell; Western Writers of America. |
| ISBN: | 0385021232 9780385021234 |
| OCLC Number: | 1195053 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xii, 241 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | The pathfinders / Tom Curry--The Union Pacific / Nellie Snyder Yost--"Everywhere west": the Burlington / Edith Thompson Hall--Building the impossible / Todhunter Ballard--The wedding of the rails / Nellie Snyder Yost--Cinderella of the prairie: the Kansas Pacific / Mel Marshall--Across the top: building the northern roads / William O. Turner--The baby road / Steve Frazee--Highballing on wodden rails / Glenn R. Vernam--High iron by Christmas or the great Christmas race / Ellis Lucia--The benevolent and belligerant octopus: the Southern Pacific / Paul Bailey--The old Santa Fe Trail becomes a steel highway / Donald Duke--Then came the predators / William R. Cox--Railroad tragedies in the old West / Elmer Kelton--The western railroads today / Donald Duke. |
| Responsibility: | by the Western Writers of America ; edited by Don Russell. |
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