Trails of the Iron Horse: An Informal History - Hardcover

Russell, Don (Editor)

9780385021234: Trails of the Iron Horse: An Informal History

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385021232 ISBN 13: 9780385021234

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975

Stated first edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean black boards with brown cloth spine, silver lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with over 100 rare photographs. 241 pages with index. Clean bright illustrated dust jacket is not price clipped, no chips, one short closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. This is the lusty and gutsy saga of the era that saw tghe building of America's railroads in the West. Represented here are nearly five years of a unique fraternal writing effort, an effort shared mong thirteen prominent members of the Western Writers of America who each wrote about a special episode in the history of the Western railroads. The tales they tell are not only of the great trunk lines that built the West, but also of the smaller railroads, all great adventures in the taming of the West.

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