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Bound by Steel and Stone
- The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960
Engelsk Paperback
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Bound by Steel and Stone
- The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960
Engelsk Paperback

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Bound by Steel and Stone analyzes the Colorado-Kansas Railway through the economic enterprise in the American West in the decades after the supposed 1890 closing of the frontier. In it, J. Bradford Bowers weaves a tale of reinvention against the backdrop of the newly settled West, showing how the railway survived in one form or another for nearly fifty years, overcoming competition from other railroads, a limited revenue base, and even more limited capital financing.
 
Offering the Colorado-Kansas Railway as an example of how shortline railroads helped to integrate the rural landscape with the larger urban and economic world, Bowers reveals the constant adaptations driven by changing economic forces and conditions. He puts the railway in context of the wider environmental and political landscapes, the growing quarrying and mining business, the expansion of agriculture and irrigation, Progressive-era political reforms, and land development. In the new frontier of enterprise in the early twentieth-century American West, the railroad highlights the successes and failures of the men inspired to pursue these new opportunities as well as the story of one woman who held these fragile industries together well into the second half of the twentieth century.
 
Bound by Steel and Stone is an insightful addition to the history of industrialization and economic development in Colorado and the American West.
 




Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
306
ISBN-13:
9781646423491
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1646423496
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Udg. Dato:
13 jun 2022
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University Press of Colorado
Oplagsdato:
13 jun 2022
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