Across the Columbia Plain: Railroad Expansion in the Interior Northwest, 1885-1893
In just a few years of prosperity, between 1886 and 1891, a wave of railroad construction broke across the sparsely populated inland plain of the Pacific Northwest. Racing to secure strategic routes and sources of traffic, the railway promoters built an extensive and bewildering network of competing lines. Continuing the saga he commenced in To the Columbia Gateway: The Oregon Railway and the Northern Pacific, 1879-1884 (WSU Press, 1987), Peter Lewty describes the region's dramatic railroad...
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In just a few years of prosperity, between 1886 and 1891, a wave of railroad construction broke across the sparsely populated inland plain of the Pacific Northwest. Racing to secure strategic routes and sources of traffic, the railway promoters built an extensive and bewildering network of competing lines. Continuing the saga he commenced in To the Columbia Gateway: The Oregon Railway and the Northern Pacific, 1879-1884 (WSU Press, 1987), Peter Lewty describes the region's dramatic railroad boom in the years 1885 to 1893. Recreating the prevailing atmosphere of optimism and excitement, he traces the expansion of the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific systems in the interior Northwest, chronicles the construction of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern Railway, and presents a multi-faceted portrait of railway operations on the last frontier of American settlement.
PrefacePrologue1Lease and Joint Lease12To Moscow, Pomeroy, and Weston213Rivals in the Palouse274The Cascade Branch355The Stampede Tunnel596The Columbia River Bridge677The Hunt System718Lexington, Heppner, and the Coal Mines939Coeur d'Alene9910Oregon Railway Extensions11911In the Big Bend12912The Great Northern Railway14313Down to Juliaetta17114To Keep the Wheels Turning17715The Road to Ruin211Appendix A: Railways in the Columbia Interior, 1879-1893: Distances and Elevations219Appendix B: Glossary of Railroad Terms239Notes267Bibliography307Index311
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