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.
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
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