Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century WestIt seems difficult even to imagine the modern West without reference to its planes, trains, and automobiles. Freeways define modern Los Angeles, as Route 66 still recalls the freedom of the open road. Seattle, long home to Boeing, gave birth to jetliners such as the 707. And once trains with glamorous names like The Sunset Limited and The Great Northern Flyer carried passengers in posh luxury through the grand vistas of the West. "Railways, highways, and skyways link landscapes both ordinary and sublime for tourists in search of scenic splendor," observes Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes. But those same corridors often leaven despair with opportunity for those who dream that the mobility brought by car, train, and plane will help them find better jobs or escape from their pasts. |
Contents
The View from 29000 Feet and Below | 1 |
Transportation Corridors Transform the West | 30 |
When Railroads Ruled | 58 |
Copper Connections and the Last Transcontinental Railroad | 88 |
Roads Stretching from Farm to Market but Seldom Beyond | 114 |
The Emergence of New Corridors of Power | 137 |
The TwentiethCentury Transportation Revolution | 161 |
The New Overland Route | 189 |
Auto Euphoria and Other Postwar Enthusiasms | 270 |
The Skys the Limit | 295 |
Reinventing the Railroads | 324 |
The Space of Place | 354 |
Notes | 375 |
Sources of Images | 389 |
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