This book provides a type by type survey of the best American locomotives, discussing the great railroad companies, the manufacturers, the improvements in technology that allowed such leaps as increas
Post Roads & Iron Horses is the first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England.
A vivid account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad -- available for the first time in trade paperback -- by the author of the bestselling The Admirals: "Borneman is masterly at writing se
Fiction. Native American Studies. Welcome to the United States of America in the 1880s: Settlers are moving west, as do the iron horses that bring them by rail…and somewhere in those vast regions of d
Over 60 designs depict wizards, fairies, winged horses, frog princes, multi-headed beasts, and other bizarre figures-all easily adaptable for embroidery work, painting nursery furniture and walls, and
Humbert the horse loves working with Mr. Firkin, the scrap-iron dealer, but he envies the grand life of the brewery horses who pull the Lord Mayor’s golden coach. As the day of the Lord Master’s Show
