Screen LibraryGoing places：transportation redefines the twentieth-century West
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Indiana University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Bloomington |
| Publication Dates: | c2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The American West in the twentieth century |
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| Carrier Form: | xix, 419 p.: ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0253342023 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F517 |
| CLC: | F517.127 |
| Call Number: | F517.127/S398 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-409) and index. Transportation corridors transform the west -- When railroads ruled -- Copper connections and the last transcontinental railroad -- Roads stretching from farm to market, but seldom beyond -- The emergence of new corridors of power -- The twentieth-century transportation revolution -- The new overland route -- Hard choices for hard times -- Is this trip necessary? the impact of World War II -- Auto euphoria and other postwar enthusiasms -- The sky's the limit -- Reinventing the railroads. |