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Profiting from the Plains
Claire Strom
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Description for Profiting from the Plains
paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; KNGT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Profiting from the Plains looks at two inextricably linked historical movements in the United States: the westward expansion of the great Northern Railway and the agricultural development of the northern plains. Claire Strom explores the persistent, idiosyncratic attempts by the Great Northern to boost agricultural production along its rail routes from St. Paul to Seattle between 1878 and 1917. Lacking a federal land grant, the Great Northern could not make money through land sales like other railways. It had to rely on haulage to make a profit, and the greatest potential for increasing haulage lay in farming.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295986630
SKU
V9780295986630
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About Claire Strom
Claire Strom is assistant professor of history, North Dakota State University, Fargo.
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