Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West Hardcover - 1999
by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
Schwantes gathers historical photos, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. 255 illustrations, 40 in color.
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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 an 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 an other illustrations with vivid contemporary accounts, Schwantes present a fascinating history of Americans forging the first working connections between the West and the rest of America -- connections that the railroads would soon smooth an strengthen. His book Railroad Signatures across the Pacific Northwest detailed that story; here he tells of the people and animals and equipment supplanted by the twin ribbons ofsteel.
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- Title Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West
- Author Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 408
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Washington Press, Seattle
- Date 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780295976914 / 0295976918
- Weight 4.65 lbs (2.11 kg)
- Dimensions 10.21 x 10.75 x 1.47 in (25.93 x 27.31 x 3.73 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Mountains
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Idaho
- Geographic Orientation: Montana
- Geographic Orientation: Oregon
- Geographic Orientation: Washington
- Library of Congress subjects Overland journeys to the Pacific, Frontier and pioneer life - Northwestern
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99029316
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.504
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Citations
- Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 152
- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2000, Page 113
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