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Author Bagley, Will, 1950-2021

Title Always a cowboy : judge Wilson McCarthy and the rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad / Will Bagley
Published Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 316 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; One: Happy, Optimistic, and Good Company: Charles McCarthy Goes West; Two: A Prisoner for Conscience Sake: The Pen, the Railroad, and the Lord's Vineyard; Three: We Have Always Been Sweethearts: Home on the Canadian Range; Four: No Reversals: The Rapid Rise of Judge McCarthy; Five: No Fairy Godmother: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Six: The Tug of the West: A California Interlude; Seven: Dangerous & Rapidly Getting Worse: How to Ruin a Railroad, or the Checkered History of the Denver & Rio Grande Western
Summary Cowboy, judge, federal official, then business executive, Wilson McCarthy mirrored change and growth in the twentieth-century West. Leading the Denver & Rio Grande back from the brink saved a vital link in the national transportation system. The D & RGW ran over and through the scenic Rockies, developing mineral resources, fighting corporate wars, and helping build communities. The Depression brought it to its knees. Accepting federal assignment to save the line, McCarthy turned it into a paragon of mid-century railroading, represented by the streamlined, Vista-Domed California Zephyr, although
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-306) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject McCarthy, Wilson (Judge)
SUBJECT McCarthy, Wilson, judge
Subject Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company.
SUBJECT Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company. fast (OCoLC)fst00510574
Subject TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- History.
HISTORY -- General.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780874217162
0874217164