The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West
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- Synopsis
- The past called to Bain, also the author of "Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad", through his grandmother, born in a covered wagon somewhere in Kansas in 1889. He took his family on a summer-long exploration of the West, tracing portions of emigrant routes between the Missouri River and the Golden Gate -- parts of the Oregon, California, Mormon Pioneer, and Overland Trails; the Pony Express; and the railroad. It was a trip, he told his children, about the journey and not the destination; his account draws an impressionistic narrative line from the Indians, trapper, traders, explorers, engineers, and emigrants 'to those who actually found what they were looking for and settled into the tiny, isolated pioneer communities that grew up, spread out, and transformed the West, confiscating one kind of life and implanting another'.
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 449 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780143035268
- Publisher:
- Penguin Group (Canada)
- Date of Addition:
- 08/25/09
- Copyrighted By:
- David Haward Bain
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Travel, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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