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  title info:
    title: Santa Fe
    sub title: the railroad that built an empire
  name:
    name part: Marshall, James Leslie
    name part: 1891-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Random House
    date issued: ©1945
    date issued: 1945
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii-xvi, 465 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 22 cm
  abstract: The dream of Cyrus K. Holliday for a great railroad in the Southwest was based on the fabulous legend of the old Santa Fe Trail over which, from the time of the Conquistadores, had come the riches of New Spain : embroidered shawls, the plumes of tropical birds, laces, sugar, wine and silk. Across the plains to the Missouri they came in ever-increasing quantities and found their way to the growing land east of the Mississippi. To Santa Fe the traders in their stout ox carts carried gold, salt, copper, fur, hides, the print goods of New England mills, the gadgets of Yankee ingenuity. It was slow, but fortunes were made. The railroad that was to take over all this traffic, and more, was actually started at Topeka, Kansas on a bleak October day in 1868. Col. Holliday made a speech. Facing the incredulous but tolerant grins of his neighbors he envisioned a railroad which would join Kansas City and Santa Fe, which would go on to the Pacific Coast to meet the ships from the Orient, would tap the hidden mineral wealth of the Rockies and the traffic from Mexico, would afford shipping facilities for the vast land in between, with its cattle herds and its growing agriculture. Agriculture indeed, said the smiles of his hearers, with 75,000,000 buffaloes roaming the plains, to say nothing of the marauding bands of Indians. And how about the blizzards, and cyclones; how about mountains to cross at altitudes of seven, eight and nine thousand feet; how about the shifting sands of the deserts, the bottomless canyons, the floods, the arid waters? This is the story of how it was done, step by step, problem by problem; the Indian fighting, the depredations of buffaloes, the engineering feats, the battles for rights of way. It is a thrilling story of American adventure and empire building. In it the reader meets characters who were famous in those roaring days of the Southwest : Kit Carson, the scout; Bat Masterson, gunfighting marshal of wicked Dodge City; old Jesse Chisholm of the Chi…
  table of contents: Trails to treasure lands -- The dirt flies at last -- Colonel Holliday heads West -- Steel across the prairie -- Into the Rockies -- The prairie blooms -- The coming of Fred Harvey -- Headed for trouble -- "Seize and hold that pass!" -- Guns in Royal Gorge -- Unlocking an empire -- California, here we come! -- The invasion of Chicago -- North from the Gulf -- Oklahoma! -- Slow! Rough track! -- Down through Arizona -- Mr. Ripley fights it through -- The coming of the diesels -- Tales along the track -- The trail that is always new -- Appendix: I. Who, when and where ; II. Santa Fe town names ; III. Railroad slang ; IV. Santa Fe Departments ; V. Trains ; VI. Some Santa Fe firsts ; VII. Financial ; VIII. Chronological development of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System ; IX. Santa Fe presidents.
  note: by James Marshall.
  note: Includes index.
  note: Maps on lining papers.
  note: Also issued online.
  note: commitment to retain 20151208 pda OTUTLD
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company.
  subject:
    topic: Railroads
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company.
  subject:
    topic: Railroads
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: HE2791 .A83 1945
  classification: 385
  classification: HE2791 .A83
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Santa Fe
    name:
      name part: Marshall, James Leslie, 1891-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Random House, ©1945
    identifier: (OCoLC)586456724
  identifier: 46000498
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 771116
    record change date: 20231205094536.0
    record identifier: in00000082592
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng