The St. Louis-San Francisco transcontinental railroad
Subtitle: the thirty-fifth parallel project, 1853-1890
By: by H. Craig Miner.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company; Railroads -- United States -- History
Description: Scholarly history of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad, describing the multi-generational effort to build the road west. The author details the effort to build a snow-free route to the Coast and how it ruined five railroad companies. The book covers the construction of what were originally the Missouri and Central Divisions of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, the takeover by the Santa Fe, and the emergence of the independent Frisco. 236 pages with bibliography and index.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 213-224.