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In this exciting exposition, author Michael R. Bradley brings to life the Confederate cavalry operations during the winter of 1862. These strategic plans centered on an unprecedented use of horsemen in carefully orchestrated maneuvers to successfully strike behind enemy lines. The series of daring raids by Confederate riders were led by Gens. Nathan Bedford Forrest, John Hunt Morgan, Earl Van Dorn, and Joseph Wheeler. Although of widely different backgrounds and military expertise, these men earned a spot in history by taking advantage of the one area in which the Confederacy excelled—their cavalry.
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Exploration of the Grand Canyon has attracted the attention of adventurers from Coronado to Roosevelt and captured the imaginations of millions worldwide. In the early part of the twentieth century, development of the canyon as a tourist destination, a source of mining prospects, an artistic subject, and a geological wonder increased at tremendous rates due to the linking of the Santa Fe railroad line with the canyon’s edge from Williams and Flagstaff.
Designated as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the St. Charles street railway is the oldest surviving railway in the United States, carrying passengers since 1835. The National Park Service included the New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad on the National Register of Historic Places. Beginning with the first proposal for the railroad in 1832, this pictorial book covers the history of these New Orleans icons.
This history of street and interurban electric railways of Louisiana outlines and accentuates a fascinating and marvelous period of growth enjoyed by the state’s larger cities, the interval of time between the 1870s and the late 1920s. Paperback.
This extensively illustrated, 240-page volume documents the long and colorful history of streetcar transportation in the city of New Orleans.
This reprint of a 1965 volume, written by the two leading authorities on the subject, represents the complete work on the subject of New Orleans traction and urban railways.
An iconic symbol of the Crescent City, the New Orleans streetcar possesses a colorful past spanning more than a century. Covering the time between 1964 and 2008, this pictorial book presents the story of the streetcar, from the year they were replaced by buses on Canal Street through the restoration of the lines following Hurricane Katrina. The streetcar evokes a sense of nostalgia while representing the great legacy of America’s transportation history. The St. Charles Avenue line is, in fact, the oldest operating street railway system in the world.