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Author Strom, Claire

Title Profiting from the plains : the Great Northern Railway and corporate development of the American West / Claire Strom
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Contents Trial and error, 1878-1893 -- Cooperation and Success, 1893-1902 -- "The nation's future," 1902-1907 -- Conflict and disillusion, 1907-1912 -- Isolation and expertise, 1907-1912 -- Retirement and retreat, 1912-1916 -- "The voice of the northwest."
Summary "Profiting from the Plains looks at two inextricably linked historical movements in the United States: the westward expansion of the Great Northern Railway and the agricultural development of the northern plains. Claire Strom explores the persistent, idiosyncratic attempts by the Great Northern to boost agricultural production along its rail routes from St. Paul to Seattle between 1878 and 1917. Lacking a federal land grant, the Great Northern could not make money through land sales like other railways. It had to rely on haulage to make a profit, and the greatest potential for increasing haulage lay in farming." "This story of railroad politics and development ties into themes of corporate and federal sponsorship, which are increasingly recognized as fundamental to western history. As the first scholarly examination of James J. Hill's agricultural enterprises, Profiting from the Plains makes an important contribution to the biography of the popular and controversial Hill, as well as to western and environmental history."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-214) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Hill, James J. (James Jerome), 1838-1916.
SUBJECT Hill, James J. (James Jerome), 1838-1916 fast
Subject Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) -- History
SUBJECT Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) fast
Subject Railroads -- Great Plains -- History
Businessmen -- Great Plains -- Biography
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Great Plains -- History
TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- History.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Businessmen
Economic history
Railroads
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146149
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140022
Subject Great Plains
United States
West United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003050738
ISBN 9780295802114
0295802111
0295983485
9780295983486