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Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West | 
 enlarge | Author: Claire Strom
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1919687
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0295986638
Dewey Decimal Number: 977
EAN: 9780295986630
ASIN: 0295986638
Publication Date: February 15, 2007
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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. The energetic and charismatic owner of the Great Northern Railway, James J. Hill, spearheaded most of the initiatives undertaken by his corporation to boost agricultural production. As the first scholarly examination of Hill's agricultural enterprises, Profiting from the Plains makes an important contribution to western and environmental history.
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