TY  - BOOK
AU  - Overton,Richard C.
TI  - Burlington West: A Colonization History Of The Burlington Railroad 
SN  - 9780674334687
AV  - HE2791.C643 O8
U1  - 385.0978 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
KW  - Railroad land grants
KW  - United States
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company
KW  - Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
KW  - Railroad land grants -- United States
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; MAPS --; GRAPHS --; NOTE ON DOCUMENTATION --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER I. ORIGINS OF THE BURLINGTON SYSTEM --; CHAPTER II. SOUTHERN IOWA PLANS ITS RAILROAD, 1852-1856 --; CHAPTER III. CONGRESS, SECTIONALISM, AND THE LAND GRANT, 1856 --; CHAPTER IV. ORGANIZING THE RAILROAD LAND DEPARTMENT, 1856-1859 --; CHAPTER V. THE SWAMPLANDS IMBROGLIO, 1850-1859 --; CHAPTER VI. EARLY PROBLEMS OF THE RAILROAD COLONIZERS, 1859 - 1860 --; CHAPTER VII. THE B. & M. MARKS TIME, 1860-1866 --; CHAPTER VIII. CHARLES E. PERKINS WATCHES THE COMPANY LANDS, 1860-1866 --; CHAPTER IX. RAILS FOR IOWA AND A PROJECT FOR NEBRASKA, 1866-1869 --; CHAPTER X. COLONEL AMES SELLS T E N THOUSAND ACRES, 1 8 6 6 - 1 8 69 --; CHAPTER XI. CONSOLIDATION AND CONSTRUCTION, 1870-1873 --; CHAPTER XII. GEORGE S. HARRIS REORGANIZES THE LAND DEPARTMENT, 1869-1870 --; CHAPTER XIII. BOOM YEARS FOR THE LAND DEPARTMENT, 1871-1873 --; CHAPTER XIV. CRISIS AND RECOVERY, 1874-1880 --; CHAPTER XV. CLOSING ACTIVITIES OF THE LAND DEPARTMENT, 1880-1905 --; CHAPTER XVI. THE RAILROAD AND THE COMMUNITY, 1905-1940 --; APPENDICES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674183360
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674183360
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674183360/original
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