ISBN-13: 9780252071140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 128 str.
ISBN-13: 9780252071140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 128 str.
Rapid population growth in the Great Plains and the American West after the Civil War was the result not only of railroad expansion but of a collaboration among competing railroads to adopt a uniform width for track. This title shows how the consolidation of smaller railroads and the growth of capitalism worked to unify the railroad industry.