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Kansas And The Country Beyond: On The Line Of The Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, From The Missouri To The Pacific Ocean: Partly From Persona

Kansas And The Country Beyond: On The Line Of The Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, From The Missouri To The Pacific Ocean: Partly From Persona

Copley, Josiah

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General United StatesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354489591
ISBN13: 9789354489594
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step aboard at the Missouri River and ride west with Josiah Copley, reporting from a nation stitching itself together. Steel rails. Restless horizons widen. In these railroad journey letters, first shaped as a series for the Pittsburgh Gazette, Copley offers a 19th century travelogue on the Union Pacific Railway's Eastern Division, pushing across post civil war Kansas and beyond. The result is an epistolary travel narrative that moves with the timetable: towns rising from prairie, choices of Kansas frontier settlement, and mechanics of travel where ambition meets dust and distance. More than a record of miles, Kansas And The Country Beyond is a window onto union pacific railway history and the missouri to pacific route that defined the transcontinental railroad era. Copley blends personal observation with information drawn from authentic sources, creating westward expansion accounts that feel immediate yet grounded. Read it as an annotated primary source: place names, routes, and on-the-ground impressions invite comparison with maps, newspapers, and policy debates. For fans of american west exploration narratives, it delivers narrative momentum without losing the documentary edge; for classic-literature collectors, it preserves a moment when the railway redrew the American imagination. Casual readers will relish the reportorial voice; railway enthusiasts will note the geography, the stops, and the practical realities of long-distance rail travel then, too. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a railroad travel collectors edition, a collector's item, and a cultural treasure.

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