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History Of The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Bryant AT&SF w Dust Jacket
History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
By Keith L Bryant Jr
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket (back has a small tear)
398 pages
Copyright 1974
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Colonel Holliday's Vision1
2. Texas Cows and Colorado Mountain Passes32
3. Russian Wheat Farmers and Boston Capitalists64
4. Fred Harvey and His Girls106
5. Headlong Expansion123
6. The Captains of Industry Reorganize153
7. Expansion-Conservative and Controlled182
8. From Teakettles to Mallets213
9. Federalization and Normalcy232
10. Depression, War and Technological Change259
11. The Coming of the Diesel303
12. The Chiefs and Chico326
Epilogue: Santa Fe Industries360
Notes377
Bibliographical Essay383
Index389
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
The colorful history of "twelve thousand miles of shining rails"-THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE
At the company picnic on the banks of Wakarusa Creek, Kansas, in 1869, Colonel Cyrus K. Holliday proclaimed to the assembled group: "Fellow citizens, the coming tide of immigration will flow along these lines and, like an ocean wave, advance up the side of the Rockies and dash their foamy crests down upon the Pacific." In equally eloquent terms he further envisioned the ATSF's extension to the Gulf of Mexico, to the Halls of Montezuma, and along the legendary Santa Fe Trail. His unbounded enthusiasm may sound ridiculous to the reader of today, but an optimistic belief in progress was a dominant thread in American life in the decades just before and after the Civil War. The time was ripe for expansion, territorially and commercially. Indeed, at the time of Colonel Holliday's death in 1900, much of his dream had come true.
In the twentieth century the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway not only continued to expand, but also acquired oil fields, timber land, uranium mines, pipelines and extensive real estate holdings. In its hundred-odd years of existence, the railroad giant would suffer growing pains, three national depressions and a major reorganization, but by 1974 the company had become one of the rail industry's showcases-an example of a prosperous railway doing what it could do best: hauling freight economically, rapidly and profitably.
Peak events in the developing empire of the ATSF include the acquisition of an enormous land grant in Kansas, which became a major part of the nation's breadbasket; epoch-making battles of rail giants, which eventually involved Jay Gould, and won the Atchison an independent entrance into California; the extension of the road to Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico, a result of acquiring the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway; the vast changes brought about by the technological revolution of the twentieth century; and a total restructuring in 1968 which created Santa Fe Industries in which the Railway remained the largest and most profitable segment.
The History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is the story of such dynamic leaders as William Barstow Strong and Edward P. Ripley; of investors willing to take risks on the railway and the region it served; of workers committing their careers to railroading, and of the great strides forward in railway technology. It is also the story of the development of the Southwest and of the contributions made by the Santa Fe to the growth of industry, agriculture and the process of urbanization in the region. With 120 illustrations.
Jacket photo: Santa Fe 5000, 2-10-4 helping Super Chief up Raton Pass. (Courtesy of the Santa Fe Railway)
KEITH L. BRYANT, Jr., is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is the author of two previous books, published by university presses, and of many articles for scholarly journals. He is the recipient of the William H. Kiekhofer Award for excellence in teaching, and of various travel grants. In doing research for History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway he had an experience his fellow train buffs will envy -he rode in the cab of the diesel locomotive pulling the Santa Fe's Super Chief over Raton Pass.
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