The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nationâ (Tm)S First Railroad, 1828-1853

by James Dilts and James D. Dilts

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This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, is an essential contribution not only to railyway history but also to the broader history of the development of the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.

There was no precedent for the building of the B&O. The construction of the 380-mile line from Baltimore to...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804722358

ISBN13:9780804722353

Release Date:October 1993

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:496 Pages

Weight:2.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.6" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Related Subjects

19th Century History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Railroads Transportation

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