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Author : Robert Selph Henry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History Texts written by Robert Selph Henry and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert S Henry
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Download or read book The Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History Texts written by Robert S Henry and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Selph Henry
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ISBN 13 : 9781258394011
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History Texts written by Robert Selph Henry and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Selph Henry
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Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Letter from Robert S. Henry written by Robert Selph Henry and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Maldwyn Ellis
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ISBN 13 : 9781258639280
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Comments on the Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History Texts written by David Maldwyn Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additional Authors Include Herbert O. Brayer, Chester McArthur Destler, Stanley Pargellis, Fred A. Shannon, And Edward C. Kirkland.
Author : Lloyd J. Mercer
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483257991
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Railroads and Land Grant Policy written by Lloyd J. Mercer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention attempts to replace a major part of the railroad land grant legend (according to which the granting of federal and state land to private railroad firms benefitted these firms more than it contributed to society as a whole) with some real numbers and analysis. An attempt is made to put the income and wealth distribution impact of the railroad land grants in perspective, but thorough analysis of this issue is not undertaken. The primary question this study does try to illuminate is that of the effect of the railroad land grants on economic efficiency. This emphasis was chosen because it seems clear that improvement of economic efficiency was the major goal that Congress and various state legislatures sought to attain, and thus the examination of economic efficiency questions is fundamental to evaluation of railroad land grant policy. This study will not completely replace the railroad land grant legend (because much is not covered here), but it does represent a considerable diminution of that legend.
Author : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Railroad Land Grants written by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1348 pages
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Download or read book Railway Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1945-07 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bell Sanborn
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021844859
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Railroad Land Grants, 1850-1857 written by John Bell Sanborn and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the political and economic forces behind the railroad land grants of 1850-1857, which provided millions of acres of public land to private railroad companies. The author discusses the controversies surrounding these grants, including accusations of corruption and favoritism, and the long-term impact of these policies on American history. 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 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. 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.
Author : Richard C. Overton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477306242
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Gulf To Rockies written by Richard C. Overton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gulf to Rockies is a chapter in the business and economic history of the American West and the story of two of the most colorful railroad builders of the nineteenth century. Throughout the 1860s the mineral treasures of Colorado were virtually inaccessible for lack of railroads. Even after a hectic decade of building in the 1870s, the state faced a new sort of isolation: every railroad crossing her borders was controlled by the Union Pacific or the Santa Fe. As a result, the Rocky Mountain region could not hope to compete with the Midwest for the business of the Atlantic seaboard. To remedy this situation, John Evans, former governor of Colorado, organized in 1881 a railroad to run southward from Denver as the first link in a cheap rail-water route via the Gulf of Mexico to the East. Meanwhile ambitious Fort Worth citizens had incorporated the Fort Worth and Denver City in 1873. Not a rail was laid on either road, however, until General Grenville M. Dodge, famed builder of the Union Pacific and the Texas Pacific, took up the Texas project and joined forces with Evans to create the Gulf-to-Rockies route. It took seven years for these men and their associates to mobilize funds and complete the Fort Worth–Denver line, and another decade to establish the system’s independence and solve its financial problems in the face of drought, depression, and intense competition. Gulf to Rockies was written under special agreements with Northwestern University and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, whereby the university relieved Mr. Overton of a part of his duties in order that he might have time for research and writing and the railroad undertook to bear the cost of the research. The Burlington also permitted him free access to all company records and granted him unrestricted freedom to publish his findings.
Author : William Wright Baldwin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Railroad Land Grants written by William Wright Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene P. Trani
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Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Secretaries of the Department of the Interior, 1849-1969 written by Eugene P. Trani and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard J. Orsi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940865
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Sunset Limited written by Richard J. Orsi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate. This magisterial history tells the full story of the Southern Pacific for the first time, shattering myths about the company that have prevailed to this day. A landmark account, Sunset Limited explores the railroad's development and influence—especially as it affected land settlement, agriculture, water policy, and the environment—and offers a new perspective on the tremendous, often surprising, role the company played in shaping the American West. Based on his unprecedented and extensive research into the company's historical archives, Richard Orsi finds that, contrary to conventional understanding, the Southern Pacific Company identified its corporate well-being with population growth and social and economic development in the railroad's hinterland. As he traces the complex and shifting intersections between corporate and public interest, Orsi documents the railroad's little-known promotion of land distribution, small-scale farming, scientific agriculture, and less wasteful environmental practices and policies—including water conservation and wilderness and recreational parklands preservation. Meticulously researched, lucidly written, and judiciously balanced, Sunset Limited opens a new window onto the American West in a crucial phase of its development and will forever change our perceptions of one of the largest and most important western corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : John F. Stover
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transportation in American History written by John F. Stover and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ingolf Vogeler
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000303705
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Myth Of The Family Farm written by Ingolf Vogeler and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideal of the family farm has been used to justify a myriad of federal farm legislation. Land grants, the distribution of irrigation water, land-grant college research and services, farm programs, and tax laws all have been affected. Yet, asserts the author, federal legislation and practices have had an institutional bias toward large-scale farms and agribusiness and have hastened the demise of family farms. Dr. Vogeler examines the struggle between land interests in the private and public sectors and finds that the myth of the family farm has been used to obscure the dominance of agribusiness and that the corporate penetration of agriculture has in turn contributed to the plight of migrant workers, the decline of small towns, and the economic difficulties of independent farmers. Dr. Vogeler also identifies the major shortcomings of agribusiness and federal land-related laws and programs; examines the regional impact of agribusiness and federal farm programs on rural areas; and considers the role of racial minorities and women in the development of agrarian capitalism. In conclusion, he offers a structural analysis that provides the means for progressive social change and states that the achievement of economic equality in rural America and the dismantling of the corporate control of agriculture can be realized through farmer-labor alliances.
Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451602669
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book A History of American Law, Revised Edition written by Lawrence M. Friedman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of American Law has become a classic for students of law, American history and sociology across the country. In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable and engrossing. A History of American Law presents the achievements and failures of the American legal system in the context of America's commercial and working world, family practices and attitudes toward property, slavery, government, crime and justice. Now Professor Friedman has completely revised and enlarged his landmark work, incorporating a great deal of new material. The book contains newly expanded notes, a bibliography and a bibliographical essay.
