Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893 : : A Study of Businessmen / / Julius Grodinsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Grodinsky, Julius,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1962
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Bibliographical Note --; Abbreviations Used in Footnotes --; Abbreviations of Railroads --; Dramatis Personae (1869-1893) --; Contents --; Maps and Tables --; I. Introduction --; II. Fight for Position --; III. Reverses and Failures --; IV. Scott vs. Huntington --; V. Gould vs. Perkins-The Battle at the Omaha Gateway --; VI. Gould, Nicker son and Villard-The Fight for the Eastern Colorado Gateways --; VII. Competition and Monopoly --; VIII. Expansion 1879-1883-Northwest --; IX. Expansion 1879-1883-Central --; X. Expansion 1879-1883-Southwest --; XI. Financing the Expansion 1879-1883 --; XII. The Boom Bursts --; XIII. The Fight for Trafic --; XIV. The Fight for Traffic-Transcontinental --; XV. Expansion Program Renewed, 1886-1887 Central West --; XVI. Expansion Program Renewed, 1886-1887-Northwest and Southwest --; XVII. Ruinous Competition --; XVIII. Stabilization by Industry-wide Action Interstate Commerce Railway Association --; XIX. Stabilization by Industry-wide Action Western Traffic Association --; XX. Stabilization by Corporate Action --; XXI. Final 19th Century Transcontinental Building Program --; XXII. Profit and Loss --; XXIII. Conclusion --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512802313; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512802313
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Julius Grodinsky.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.