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Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: Carlos A. Schwantes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher:

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Demonstrates that the railroads profoundly affected the way people lived, how they adjusted to the new opportunities or threats that swift and cheap transportat
The Pacific Northwest
Language: en
Pages: 598
Authors: Carlos A. Schwantes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contai
Many Wests
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: David M. Wrobel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher:

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What does it mean to live in the West today? Do people tend to identify with states, with regions, or with the larger West? This book examines the development o
Jay P. Graves and the Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Company
Language: en
Pages: 31
Authors: Lorri Moulton
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Lavender Lass Books

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The Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad started as a streetcar line, used largely for real estate development, and grew into a regional electric railway noted for
Railroad Postcards in the Age of Steam
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: H. Roger Grant
Categories: Antiques & Collectibles
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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Out of the tradition of those long-gone days of great, heaving steam locomotives and endless rail lines comes this remarkable selection of vintage cards, a trea