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Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West

Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West by Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo

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Title
Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West
Author
Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo
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Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. First Edition. 408pp. Quarto [26 cm] Rust cloth with the title silver stamped on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. In Long Day's Journey Carlos Schwantes gathers historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. He traces the rapidly evolving saga of miners and settlers struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads reached the West, trying to establish methods of transportation and communication between the eastern United States and the new territories that became Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming-first by sea, around continents, then by land and water routes across America. Many of the enduring images and myths of the West derive from this era: the Pony Express, mule trains and plodding ox-team freighters, the picturesque side-wheelers and stern-wheelers that churned along the rivers, the colorful Concord stagecoaches drawn by four or six jingling, fleet horses. Schwantes describes in detail the technology of preindustrial modes of transportation. He explains the economics that linked the birth and death of western towns and cities, the business history of entrepreneurs and stagecoach and steamboat companies, and the challenges facing passengers and employees on the stages and steamers of the northern West. Integrating more than 200 historical photographs and other illustrations with vivid contemporary accounts, Schwantes presents a fascinating history of Americans forging the first working connections between the West and the rest of America.

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