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History of the Union Pacific Railway, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author : Henry Kirke White
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428489281
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book History of the Union Pacific Railway, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Kirke White and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Union Pacific Railway, Vol. 2 Mr. Whitney was a New York merchant in the China trade who had gained a considerable knowledge of the geography of the West and also of its needs and its possibilities. By incessant lecturing and writing, and by personal contact with leading men, he made his inﬂuence very widely felt, and impressed upon a vast number of people his views of the need and the feasibility of a Pacific railway. He has the honor also of having formu lated the first definite plan for a road. Although this never received the sanction of Congress it is important as indicating the first stage in the evolution of the Pacific Railway Act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Condensed History of the Construction of the Union Pacific Railway

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Condensed History of the Construction of the Union Pacific Railway written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the early history and traditional life of the Nez Percâe, their contacts with white explorers and settlers, the loss of their land, and their eventual surrender to reservation life.

The Union Pacific Railway, (Eastern Division, ) Or (Kansas Pacific Railway)

Author : John D. Perry
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331506495
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book The Union Pacific Railway, (Eastern Division, ) Or (Kansas Pacific Railway) written by John D. Perry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Union Pacific Railway, (Eastern Division, ) or (Kansas Pacific Railway): Economy to the Government That they have carefully considered the statements therein made, and have found them confirmed by the following facts drawn from Official record. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of the Union Pacific Railway

Author : Henry Kirke White
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330090961
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book History of the Union Pacific Railway written by Henry Kirke White and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Union Pacific Railway, Vol. 2 The first railway to the Pacific claimed the attention of the country on two distinct bases - as an element in our political history, and as a commercial enterprise. In the early sixties the leading argument in favor of building it was the necessity of strengthening in their allegiance to the Union the states on the Pacific coast. Since the completion of the road in 1869 the commercial importance has been the obvious one. It was, moreover, the commercial features of the scheme, and only in a minor way the political ones, that inspired the early agitation for a road. In this agitation, which stretches far back of the Civil War, it is interesting to trace the evolution of the plan for connecting the two oceans by rail, and to see how the road was considered at first desirable, then important, and at last necessary. The spirit of unrest which led to the discovery of new lands and new routes to old ones during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was slow to die out. The commercial spirit of Europe which inspired the quest for a new sea route to India did not subside with the finding of an intervening continent and the subsequent failure to find a Northwest Passage. If there was no waterway, a land route was demanded. Explorers had not been slow to trace the great natural waterway leading into the heart of the continent furnished by the Great Lakes, but advances west of Lake Superior were inconsiderable. Thus far the French had led; here they stopped. The completion of the task was reserved for Anglo-Saxon genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Union Pacific Railway

Author : John P. Davis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265184523
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book The Union Pacific Railway written by John P. Davis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Union Pacific Railway: A Study in Railway Politics, History, and Economics The work of the student of history has heretofore been confined almost wholly to the political, religious and liter ary development of peoples; their industrial development has been subjected to inexcusable neglect. Yet the pillars of the dominance of the anglo-saxon race are its superior industrial attributes. What a people accomplishes industrially and how it accomplishes it. Go far to determine how it will be governed, what it will think and feel, and what it will write. The freedom of the individual that was the product of the eighteenth century has been more emphatically man ifested in the field of industry than in any other field of human activity. The growth of constitutional government in England is easily traced to the want of harmony be tween the Old political status and the newly developed indus trial status of English society. The increasing tendency to submit international disputes to arbitration is attributable not so much to a more enlightened repugnance to warfare as to the mere human fear of destruction of wealth and interfer ence with industries occasioned by it. The Annapolis Con vention had its origin in the desire of the American states TO consider how far a uniform system in their commer Cial relations might be necessary to their common inter ests. The slavery question was largely an industrial ques tion, and its solution was industrial, not political or moral. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of the Union Pacific Railway

Author : Henry Kirke White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book History of the Union Pacific Railway written by Henry Kirke White and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To the Rockies and Beyond

Author : Robert E. Strahorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332205394
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book To the Rockies and Beyond written by Robert E. Strahorn and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from To the Rockies and Beyond: Or a Summer on the Union Pacific Railroad and Branches Since the first appearance of "To The Rockies and Beyond" in 1878, developments in the wide field outlined in its pages have bordered upon the marvelous. The name Leadville has thrilled all America and claimed attention from lands beyond the seas, while our far Northwest, where Orient now greets Occident, beams with a life unthought of twelve months ago. Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington are the grand magnets upon our far western area to-day. Their unparalleled progress during the past year, and the constantly growing, earnest demand for intelligence concerning them is sufficient excuse for the enlargement and revision of this work. Nearly 100 fresh pages are added, special attention being called to those devoted to Leadville, Montana, and the Snake and Salmon River Regions. Reiterating a cherished desire to pleasantly introduce all classes of readers to the great region lying beyond the Missouri, to reliably point out the way for tens of thousands of inquiring homeseekers and tourists and to convey an idea of the glories of far west climate and scenery or the delightful experiences of mountaineering, the writer also wishes each voyageur as rich a fruition of pleasure in journeyings toward sunset as he himself enjoyed in his second "Summer on the Union Pacific Railroad and Branches." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Union Pacific Railway

Author : Charles G. Leland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332942049
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Union Pacific Railway written by Charles G. Leland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Union Pacific Railway: Eastern Division, Or, Three Thousand Miles in a Railway Car The following pages contain the record of a journey made by a party of gentlemen from Philadelphia to Kansas and back, during the month of November, 1866. The object of the excursion was to examine the condition of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, to assemble in council, at Leavenworth, those who were specially interested in it, and to make such scientific and industrial researches along the route as might be of advantage to the enterprise. How this was effected has already been laid before the public in several prominent journals. The writer has taken pains in these letters to depict, as truthfully as possible, his experience and impressions of this very interesting journey. As the condition of that grand national enterprise, the Pacific Railway, was the principal subject of discussion by the tourists, the facts thus evolved form, of course, the subject matter of the series. As for the rest, he has done his utmost to set forth how he and his friends passed their time during their trip of three thousand miles in a railroad car, and what were his real feelings at the time. His chief object in republishing these letters - written originally for Forney's Press, of Philadelphia has been to express, in a collected and somewhat more durable form, a slight tribute of his gratitude to the gentlemen of the company to whose general kindness and personal courtesy he is indebted for having passed as pleasant a month as it was ever his fortune to enjoy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Union Pacific Railroad

Author : Thomas Nelson Sons
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780530340791
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book The Union Pacific Railroad written by Thomas Nelson Sons and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Building the Pacific Railway (Classic Reprint)

Author : Edwin L. Sabin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330600542
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book Building the Pacific Railway (Classic Reprint) written by Edwin L. Sabin and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Building the Pacific Railway Fifty years have passed since most of the events noted within this volume were new. On May lo, 1869, at Promontory Point, fifty-six miles northwest of Ogden, Utah, the last rails were laid and the last spike was driven, completing the Pacific Railway for quick traffic between the East and the West. Two distinct books might be written upon the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad from the Missouri River, and of the Central Pacific Railroad from the Sacramento River - those iron trails that lengthened westward and eastward until they crossed the vacant space of 1770 miles and joined in the Utah desert. The one book should focus upon the actual building operations in the great open of plains, mountains and deserts; the other, upon the financial operations by the Credit Mobilier of the Union Pacific, and by Crocker & Co. and the Finance Company of the Central Pacific. The pages which here follow aim at providing the first-mentioned story. They are devoted mainly to the stress, the sweat, the toil by mind and body in order to achieve the physical problems. Deeds and romance a-plenty may be found, without resort to those disputed details that once made great names common property and are now relatively unimportant. That past is dead; an undying path brightens in the swath of Time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Union Pacific Railway

Author : John Patterson Davis
Publisher : Chicago, S. C. Griggs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Union Pacific Railway written by John Patterson Davis and published by Chicago, S. C. Griggs. This book was released on 1894 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Union Pacific Railway: A Study in Railway Politics, History, and Economics The work of the student of history has heretofore been confined almost wholly to the political, religious and liter ary development of peoples; their industrial development has been subjected to inexcusable neglect. Yet the pillars of the dominance of the anglo-saxon race are its superior industrial attributes. What a people accomplishes industrially and how it accomplishes it. Go far to determine how it will be governed, what it will think and feel, and what it will write. The freedom of the individual that was the product of the eighteenth century has been more emphatically man ifested in the field of industry than in any other field of human activity. The growth of constitutional government in England is easily traced to the want of harmony be tween the Old political status and the newly developed indus trial status of English society. The increasing tendency to submit international disputes to arbitration is attributable not so much to a more enlightened repugnance to warfare as to the mere human fear of destruction of wealth and interfer ence with industries occasioned by it. The Annapolis Con vention had its origin in the desire of the American states TO consider how far a uniform system in their commer Cial relations might be necessary to their common inter ests. The slavery question was largely an industrial ques tion, and its solution was industrial, not political or moral. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Guide to the Union Pacific Railroad Lands (Classic Reprint)

Author : Union Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331788143
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Download or read book Guide to the Union Pacific Railroad Lands (Classic Reprint) written by Union Pacific Railroad Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Guide to the Union Pacific Railroad Lands The roads in winter are hard, dry and smooth. The greatest amount of rain occurs during the agricultural months, affording sufficient moisture for the growth of the soil. During fall and winter, the weather is usually dry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Pacific Railroads and the Government (Classic Reprint)

Author : Henry T. Blake
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333342555
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book The Pacific Railroads and the Government (Classic Reprint) written by Henry T. Blake and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pacific Railroads and the Government Nevertheless Congress determined to make the attempt, and by the act of July 1, 1862, created a corporation under the name of the Union Pacific Railway Company, to construct a railroad and telegraph to the Pacific coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of the Union Pacific Railway [1895]

Author : Henry Kirke White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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History of the Union Pacific Railroad

Author : Union Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334727375
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book History of the Union Pacific Railroad written by Union Pacific Railroad Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Union Pacific Railroad: Issued by the Union Pacific Railroad on the Occasion of the Celebration at Ogden, Utah, May 10th, 1919, in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Driving of the Golden Spike Trans-mississippi country. An investment of fifteen million dollars (the price paid the French Government), had brought them to a feeling of direct personal interest in this vast, unexplored territory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of the Union Pacific Railway

Author : Henry Kirke White
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340729592
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book History of the Union Pacific Railway written by Henry Kirke White and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

How We Built the Union Pacific Railway, and Other Railway Papers and Addresses (Classic Reprint)

Author : Grenville Mellen Dodge
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267808687
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book How We Built the Union Pacific Railway, and Other Railway Papers and Addresses (Classic Reprint) written by Grenville Mellen Dodge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from How We Built the Union Pacific Railway, and Other Railway Papers and Addresses In 1836 the first public meeting to consider the project of a Pacific railway was called by John Plumbe, a civil engineer of Dubuque, Iowa. Interest in a Pacific railway increased from this time. The explorations of Fremont in 1842 and 1846 brought the attention of Congress, and A. C. Whitney was zealous and efficient in the cause from 1840 to 1850. The first practical measure was Senator Salmon P. Chase's bill, making an appropriation for the explorations of different routes for a Pacific railway in 1853. Numerous bills were introduced in Con gress between 1852 and 1860, granting subsidies and lands, and some of them appropriating as large a sum as for the construction of the road. One Of these bills passed one of the houses of Congress. The results of the explorations ordered by Congress were printed in eleven large volumes, covering the country between the parallels of latitude thirty-second on the south and forty-ninth on the north, and demonstrating the feasibility of building a Pacific railway, but at a cost on any one of the lines much larger than the Union Pacific and Cen tral Pacific were built for. It is a singular fact that in all these explorations the most feasible line in an engineering and com mercial point of View, the line with the least obstacles to over come, of lowest grades and least curvature was never explored and reported on. Private enterprise explored and developed that line along the forty-second parallel of latitude. This route was made by the buffalo, next used by the Indians, then by the fur traders, next by the Mormons, and then by the overland immigration to California and Oregon It was known as the Great Platte Valley Route. On this trail, or close to it, was built the Union and Central Pacific Railroads to California, and the Oregon Short Line branch of the Union Pacific to Oregon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.