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Long Day's Journey: Steamboat & Stagecoach Era
Category: History: U.S.: 19th Century
Author: Carlos Arnoldo Schwantes
Copyright/published Year: 1999 by Univ of Washington
ISBN: 0295976918
Binding: Cloth
In Long Day's Journey Carlos Schwantes gathers historical
photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts
to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American
West. He traces the rapidly evolving saga of miners and settlers
struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads
reached the West, trying to establish methods of transportation
and communication between the eastern United States and the new
territories that became Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and
Wyoming-first by sea, around continents, then by land and water
routes across America. Many of the enduring images and myths of
the West derive from this era: the Pony Express, mule trains and
plodding oxteam freighters, the picturesque side-wheelers and
sternwheelers that churned along the rivers, the colorful Concord
stagecoaches drawn by four or six jingling, fleet horses.
Schwantes describes in detail the technology of preindustrial modes of transportation. He explains the economics that linked the birth and death of western towns and cities, the business history of entrepreneurs and stagecoach and steamboat companies, and the challenges facing passengers and employees on the stages and steamers of the northern West. Integrating more than 200 historical photographs and other illustrations with vivid contemporary accounts, Schwantes presents a fascinating history of Americans forging the first working connections between the West and the rest of American-connections that the railroads would soon smooth and strengthen. His book RAILROAD SIGNATURES ACROSS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST<.i> detailed that story; here he tells of the people and animals and equipment supplanted by the twin ribbons of steel.
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