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The Iron Horse: the impact of the railroads on 19th century American society
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By Marieke van Ophem
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- Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation. A Concise History of the
American People. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993, 178-180
- Ibid., 223
- Brinkley, 223
- Licht, Walter. Working for the Railroad. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1983, 7
- Brinkley, 223
- Fogel, R.W. Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Economic
History Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964, 2
- Brinkley, 223-224
- Licht, 10
- Ibid., 7-8
- Brinkley, 224
- Fogel, 2-3
- Billington, R.A. Westward Expansion New York: The Macmillan Company,
1967, 642-643
- Fogel, 3
- Bass Warner Jr., S. The Urban Wilderness. A History of the American
City. New York: Harper & Row, 1972, 92-96
- Laurie, Bruce. Artisans into Workers New York: Hill and Wang, 1989, 114
- Brinkley, 347
- parts 6 through 9 are taken from Dee Brown, Hear That Lonesome Whistle
Blow New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1978, pages 28-37, unless stated otherwise
- Emerson, as quoted in Cochran, T. and W. Miller The Age of Enterprise
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1961, 54
- Cochran, 54
- Asa Whitney, as quoted in Brown, 28-32
- as quoted in Brown, 32
- Brinkley, 347-348
- President Pierce, as quoted in Brown, 36
- as quoted in Brown, 36
- Brinkley, 342
- Ibid., 438-349
- Folsom, B.W. The Myth of the Robber Barons Herndon: Young America's
Foundation, 1991, 18
- Ibid., 1
- as quoted in Folsom, 18-19
- Folsom, 18-19
- Brown, 102
- Folsom, 19
- Brown, 98
- Ibid., 100-101
- Folsom, 19-20
- Brown, 102-103
- part 12 is taken from Dee Brown, pages 119-127, unless stated otherwise
- as quoted in Brown, 119
- Harte, as quoted in Brown, 127
- part 13 is taken from Folsom, pages 20-22, unless stated otherwise
- Durant, as quoted in Folsom, 20
- Scheiber H., H. Vatter and H. Underwood Faulkner. American Economic
History New York: Harper & Row, 1976, 264-265
- as quoted in Billington, Westward Expansion, 707
- ibid.
- ibid., 708
- Billington, Westward Expansion, 706-708
- Fogel, 5
- parts 16, 17 and 18 are taken from Hudson, John C. "Towns of the Western
Railroads" Great Plains Quarterly, Winter 1982, 41 - 54 (41-44)
- as quoted in Hudson, 42
- ibid.
- as quoted in Fogel, 4
- part 19 is taken from Ray Ginger, "A Compulsory Heaven at Pullman"
Eds. L. Dinnerstein and K.T. Jackson American Vistas. 1877 to the
Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979, 37-59, unless stated otherwise
- Morgan, Kenneth ed. The Oxford History of Britain Oxford: Oxford
University Press 1984, 530
- as quoted in Ginger, 43
- ibid.
- Taft, Philip. Organized Labor in American History New York:
Harper & Row, 1964, 147
- parts 21 and 22 are taken from Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the
United States. 1492 - present New York: HarperPerennial, 1995, 240-241,
unless stated otherwise
- as quoted in Zinn, 272
- Dacus, as quoted in Zinn, 242
- as quoted in Zinn, 245
- Burbank, as quoted in Zinn, 245
- Marx, as quoted in Zinn, 245-246
- parts 23 through 25 are taken from Ray Ginger, 43-56, unless stated otherwise.
- Debs, as quoted in Ginger, 48
- as quoted in Ginger, 51
- Debs, as quoted in Ginger, 52
- United States Constitution, as quoted in Ginger, 52
- Governor Altgeld, as quoted in Ginger, 52-53
- President Cleveland, as quoted in Ginger, 53
- as quoted in Ginger, 55
- Federal investigating commission, as quoted in Ginger, 56
- supreme court of Illinois, as quoted in Ginger, 56
- Chapter VI (parts 26-28) has been taken from Scheiber et. Al, 265-270,
unless stated otherwise
- From Revolution to Reconstruction and what happened afterwards�
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1990/ch6_p6.htm, June 1999
- Billington, Westward Expansion 728-729.
- The Fourteenth Amendment, as quoted in Scheiber, 267
- Court ruling, as quoted in Scheiber, 267
- ibid.
- Interstate Commerce Commissioners, as quoted in Scheiber, 269
- Historical Overview of the Union Pacific Railroad Post Construction
http://www.uprr.com/uprr/ffh/history/hist-ov5.shtml April 1999
- Scheiber et. Al. 271-272
- Historical Overview of the Union Pacific Railroad
- Milner II, C.A., O'Connor C.A., & Sandweiss M.A. The Oxford History
of the American West New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 472-473
- Scheiber et. Al 322-323
- Ibid., 408-409
- Historical Overview of the Union Pacific Railroad
- http://www.trainweb.com/ahs/bah.htm , April 1999
- Brown, 278
- Ibid., 216
- Milner et. Al, 628-629
- Stilgoe, as quoted in Historical Overview of the Union Pacific Railroad
- Poulson, Barry. Economic History of the United States New York:
Macmillan Publishing Company Inc., 1981, 297
- Scheiber et.al, 159
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