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Across the Columbia Plain By Peter J. Lewty RR expansion interior NW 1885-93
Across the Columbia Plain
By Peter J. Lewty
Railroad expansion in the Interior Northwest 1885-1893
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
326 pages Indexed
Copyright 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prefaceix
Prologuexiii
1Lease and Joint Lease1
2To Moscow, Pomeroy, and Weston21
3Rivals in the Palouse27
4The Cascade Branch35
5The Stampede Tunnel59
6The Columbia River Bridge67
7The Hunt System71
8Lexington, Heppner, and the Coal Mines93
9Coeur d'Alene99
10Oregon Railway Extensions119
11In the Big Bend129
12The Great Northern Railway143
13Down to Juliaetta171
14To Keep the Wheels Turning177
15The Road to Ruin211
Appendix A: Railways in the Columbia Interior,
1879-1893: Distances and Elevations219
Appendix B: Glossary of Railroad Terms239
Notes267
Bibliography307
Index311
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
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.
Extensively documented and fast moving, Across the Columbia Plain will be required reading for railroad enthusiasts and Northwest historians.
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