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ISBN: 0874217059 9786613250155 0874217067 1283250152 9780874217063 9781283250153 9780874217056 6613250155 1607327783 Year: 2008 Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press,
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Francaviglia looks anew at the geographical-historical context of the driving of the golden spike in May 1869. He gazes outward from the site of the transcontinental railroad's completion-the summit of a remote mountain range that extends south into the Great Salt Lake. The transportation corridor that for the first time linked America's coasts gave this distinctive region significance, but it anchored two centuries of human activity linked to the area's landscape.Francaviglia brings to that larger story a geographer's perspective on place and society, a railroad enthusia
Pacific railroads --- Railroads --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- History --- Pacific railroads. --- History. --- Union Pacific Railway Company. --- Central Pacific Railroad Company --- California and Oregon Railroad Company --- California Central Railroad Company (1857-1864) --- Central Pacific Railway Company --- Kansas Pacific Railway Company --- Union Pacific Railroad Company --- Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company
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ISBN: 1607816385 9781607816386 9781607816379 1607816377 Year: 2018 Publisher: Salt Lake City
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"Andrew J. Russell is primarily known as the man who photographed the famous "East and West Shaking Hands" image of the Golden Spike ceremony on May 10, 1869. He also took nearly one thousand other images that document almost every aspect of the construction of the Union PacificRailroad. Across the Continent is the most detailed study to date of the life and work of an often-overlooked but prolific artist who contributed immensely not only to documentation of the railroad but also to the nation's visualization of the American West and, earlier, the Civil War. The central focus in the book is on the large body of work Russell produced primarily to satisfy the needs of the Union Pacific. Daniel Davis posits that this set of Russell's photos is best understood not through one or a handful of individual images, but as a photographic archive. Taken as a whole, that archive shows that Russell intended for viewers never to forget who built the Union Pacific. His images celebrate working people, masons working on bridge foundations, freighters and their wagons, surveyors with their transits, engine crews posed on their engines, as well as tracklayers, laborers, cooks, machinists, carpenters, graders, teamsters, and clerks pushing paper. Russell contributed to a golden age of Western photography that visually introduced the American West to the nation, changing its public image from that of a Great American Desert to a place of apparently unlimited economic potential."--Provided by publisher.
Railroads --- Photographers --- History. --- Russell, Andrew J. --- Union Pacific Railroad Company --- Central Pacific Railroad Company --- History --- West (U.S.) --- Russell, A. J. --- California and Oregon Railroad Company --- California Central Railroad Company (1857-1864) --- Central Pacific Railway Company --- Union Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company --- Pacific Union Railroad Company --- Union Pacific Railway Company --- Oregon Railway and Navigation Company --- Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company --- Spokane International Railroad --- Oregon Short Line Railroad Company --- St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway --- Southern Pacific Company --- Nevada Central Railway --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States
ISBN: 0585314462 9780585314464 0803272782 9780803272781 Year: 1996 Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. University of Nebraska Press
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Indians of North America --- Shoshoni Indians --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Voyages and travels --- Shoshone Indians --- Snake Indians --- Numic Indians --- Shoshonean Indians --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Wars --- Kings and rulers --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Washakie, --- Union Pacific Railroad Company. --- Union Pacific Railroad. --- Union Pacific Railway Company --- Oregon Railway and Navigation Company --- Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company --- Spokane International Railroad --- Oregon Short Line Railroad Company --- St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway --- Southern Pacific Company --- Nevada Central Railway --- Union Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company --- Pacific Union Railroad Company
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