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Article: Union Pacific, 2 vols.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- The Bookwatch
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Union Pacific: Volumes 1 & 2
Maury Klein
University of Minnesota Press
111 Third Avenue South, #290, Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520
www.upress.umn.edu
0816644594 & 0816644608 $24.95/each
The weighty two-volume set covering the history of the Union Pacific won't be for every general collection--but it will be a 'must' for any serious transportation history holding and particularly for any collection solid in railroad history. Union Pacific: Volume 1 covers the period from 1862-1893, chronicling the surveys, falling outs, standoffs, and interrelationships which faced struggle to build up the Union ...