The Iowa Route

Auteur

Don L. Hofsommer is Professor of History at St. Cloud State University and president of the Lexington Group. He is author of Off the Main Lines (IUP, 2013), Iowa's Railroads: An Album (with H. Roger Grant) (IUP, 2009), and Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland (IUP, 2005).

Contenu

1. A Grand Highway from St. Louis to St. Paul
2. The Grandest Railroad Project of the Age
3. Providence Helps Those Who Help Themselves
4. Dirt Began to Fly
5. Panic
6. A New Dawning
7. Palpably Invigorating Ozone
8. Flux
9. The Albert Lea Route
10. To the Pacific Coast by a Northwest Route?
11. On to Bismarck
12. The Favorite Albert Lea Route
13. The Heavy Hand of Regulation
14. Spirit Lake Country
15. Of Panic and Tramps
16. The Gay Nineties
17. Pulling and Hauling
18. To the Twin Cities
19. A Most Satisfactory Disposition
    Epilogue
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index