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Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893 : A Study of Businessmen / Julius Grodinsky.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anniversary CollectionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1962Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781512802306
  • 9781512802313
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 385.173
LOC classification:
  • HE2751
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Bibliographical Note -- Abbreviations Used in Footnotes -- Abbreviations of Railroads -- Dramatis Personae (1869-1893) -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- I. Introduction -- II. Fight for Position -- III. Reverses and Failures -- IV. Scott vs. Huntington -- V. Gould vs. Perkins-The Battle at the Omaha Gateway -- VI. Gould, Nicker son and Villard-The Fight for the Eastern Colorado Gateways -- VII. Competition and Monopoly -- VIII. Expansion 1879-1883-Northwest -- IX. Expansion 1879-1883-Central -- X. Expansion 1879-1883-Southwest -- XI. Financing the Expansion 1879-1883 -- XII. The Boom Bursts -- XIII. The Fight for Trafic -- XIV. The Fight for Traffic-Transcontinental -- XV. Expansion Program Renewed, 1886-1887 Central West -- XVI. Expansion Program Renewed, 1886-1887-Northwest and Southwest -- XVII. Ruinous Competition -- XVIII. Stabilization by Industry-wide Action Interstate Commerce Railway Association -- XIX. Stabilization by Industry-wide Action Western Traffic Association -- XX. Stabilization by Corporate Action -- XXI. Final 19th Century Transcontinental Building Program -- XXII. Profit and Loss -- XXIII. Conclusion -- Index
Summary: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Bibliographical Note -- Abbreviations Used in Footnotes -- Abbreviations of Railroads -- Dramatis Personae (1869-1893) -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- I. Introduction -- II. Fight for Position -- III. Reverses and Failures -- IV. Scott vs. Huntington -- V. Gould vs. Perkins-The Battle at the Omaha Gateway -- VI. Gould, Nicker son and Villard-The Fight for the Eastern Colorado Gateways -- VII. Competition and Monopoly -- VIII. Expansion 1879-1883-Northwest -- IX. Expansion 1879-1883-Central -- X. Expansion 1879-1883-Southwest -- XI. Financing the Expansion 1879-1883 -- XII. The Boom Bursts -- XIII. The Fight for Trafic -- XIV. The Fight for Traffic-Transcontinental -- XV. Expansion Program Renewed, 1886-1887 Central West -- XVI. Expansion Program Renewed, 1886-1887-Northwest and Southwest -- XVII. Ruinous Competition -- XVIII. Stabilization by Industry-wide Action Interstate Commerce Railway Association -- XIX. Stabilization by Industry-wide Action Western Traffic Association -- XX. Stabilization by Corporate Action -- XXI. Final 19th Century Transcontinental Building Program -- XXII. Profit and Loss -- XXIII. Conclusion -- Index

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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