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Golden Spike A Centennial Remembrance American Geographical Society SC
The Golden Spike A Centennial Remembrance American Geographical Society
Soft Cover
Copyright 1969 Personal Library sticker inside front cover
118 pages
Contents
Foreword by E. Roland Harriman
Henry Varnum Poor, The American Geographical
Society, and The Pacific Railroad 1
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Railroad to the Pacific 6
Henry V. Poor
The Proposed "Pacific Railroad" 26
Henry V. Poor
Dr. James Douglas: An Appreciation 48
Lewis W. Douglas
Historical and Geographical Features of the Rocky
Mountain Railroads 53
James Douglas
The Railroad in History:
A Bibliographical Introduction 99
Lynn S. Mullins
PREFACE
The American Geographical and Statistical Society of New York was officially founded in 1852. In the following two decades, according to the history of the Society by John K. Wright, the members "heard more papers on the Pacific Railroad and other aspects of the westward movement than on any other comparable topic." It is fitting, therefore, that in 1969, the centennial of the driving of the Golden Spike, the Society should publish this little book, reprinting three of these early papers. The first two, by Henry V. Poor, discuss the geographical aspects before construction took place. The third, by James Douglas, surveys the geographical situation in 1885 shortly after the last of the five major routes was completed.
The Foreword has been written by E. Roland Harriman, a Fellow of the Society for over fifty years, who has been much concerned with American railroads. Mr. Harriman notes the importance of the transcontinental railroads to the growth and development and strength of the United States during the hundred years of their existence.
To introduce the papers and their authors, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., a great-grandson of Henry V. Poor, and Lewis W. Douglas, a grandson of James Douglas, have kindly written short notes. Dr. Chandler is Professor of History and Chairman of the Department of History of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Douglas, former American Ambassador to Great Britain, is now living in Tucson, Arizona.
Miss Lynn S. Mullins, Assistant Librarian of the Society, has contributed a bibliographical essay on the major sources of information on the development and expansion of the network of railroads in nineteenth-century America. The photographs are reproduced from original glass-plate negatives made by a relatively unheralded photographer, Andrew J. Russell, which are now in the possession of the Society.
The Society is deeply appreciative of a grant from the Union Pacific Railroad Foundation, which has made possible the publication of this book.
On May 10, 1869 the Golden Spike was driven at Promontory, Utah Territory. On the centennial of this significant event, which changed the geography of America, the Society is glad to publish this book-a geographical remembrance. Geography played a key role in the planning and building of the transcontinental railroads a century ago.
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