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" Union Pacific : "
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BL
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970655
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b725025
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| Main Entry
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Klein, Maury.
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Union Pacific : : 1862-1893.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, 2006.
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1 online resource (820 pages)
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| ISBN
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0816696632
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: 9780816696635
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| Contents
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Railroad Reference Key; Map; Prologue: The Monument, 1965; Part One: The Challenge, 1862-1869; Part Two: The Quest for Respectability, 1869-1884; Part Three: The Road to Hell, 1884-1893; Source Reference Key; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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Maury Klein, America's foremost railroad historian, re-creates the powerful personalities and dramatic events that led to the construction of the Union Pacific. With over one hundred historic photographs and maps, Union Pacific details the feat of engineering and human strength and also the wheelings and dealings that were waged as dreamers and scoundrels, politicians and patriots forged a pioneering enterprise in transportation.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company-- History.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company.
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History.
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History.
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| Dewey Classification
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385.0973385/.06578
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TF25.U5K53 2006
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