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9780295976914

Long Day's Journey : The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West

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  • ISBN13:

    9780295976914

  • ISBN10:

    0295976918

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

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Summary

Schwantes gathers historical photos, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. 255 illustrations, 40 in color.

Table of Contents

Preface 11(12)
Introduction 23(24)
GOLDEN YEARS, 1831--1869
Soft Gold Defines a Distant Land
47(13)
The Way West by Land and Sea
60(17)
Oregon Unbound, or the Formative Fifties
77(16)
The Pulse of a Continent
93(15)
Rocky Mountain Gold Fever
108(14)
Ho for Idaho! Steamboats to the Gold Country
122(17)
Via Shank's Mare and Stagecoach
139(10)
Long Hauls Overland: The Freighters
149(16)
Contested Terrain
165(12)
Ben Holladay Builds a Stagecoach Empire
177(16)
Stagecoaching Adapts to the Frontier West
193(11)
Travail by Stagecoach
204(15)
Navigating on a Heavy Dew
219(16)
The Burdens of Time and Space
235(14)
Landscapes of the Steamboat and Stagecoach Era
249(26)
RECONFIGURING THE WEST, 1869--1900
Overland to Promontory and Beyond
275(14)
Monopoly Rules the Empire of the Columbia
289(24)
Winding down the Missouri
313(14)
Sail, Steam, and the Rise of Seattle
327(22)
Symbols of an Era
349(24)
Notes 373(16)
Suggestions for Further Reading 389(14)
Index 403

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