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RivetingA great read full of colorful characters and outrageous confrontations back when the west was still wild George RR Martin A propulsive and panoramic history of one of the most dramatic stories never toldthe greatest railroad war of all time fought by the daring leaders of the Santa Fe and the Rio Grande to seize control and create the American WestIt is difficult to imagine now but for all its gorgeous scenery the American West might have been barren tundra as far as most Americans knew well into the 19th century While the West was advertised as a paradise on earth to citizens in the East and Midwest many believed the journey too hazardous to be worthwhileuntil 1869 when the first transcontinental railroad changed the face of transportation Railroad companies soon became the rulers of western expansion choosing routes creating brandnew railroad towns and building up remote settlements like Santa Fe Albuquerque San Diego and El Paso into proper cities But thinning federal grants left the routes incomplete an opportunity that two brash new railroad men armed with private investments and determination to build an empire across the Southwest clear to the Pacific soon seized leading to the greatest railroad war in American history In From the River to the Sea bestselling author John Sedgwick recounts in vivid and thrilling detail the decadelong fight between General William J Palmer the Civil War hero leading the little family of his Rio Grande and William Barstow Strong the hardnosed manager of the corporateminded Santa Fe What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in Colorado soon evolves into an allout battle as each man tries to outdo the otherclaiming exclusive routes through mountains narrow passes and the richest silver mines in the world enlisting private armies to protect their land and lawyers to find loopholes dispatching spies to gain information and even using the power of the press and incurring the wrath of the Godlike Robber Baron Jay Gouldto emerge victorious By the end of the century one man will fade into anonymity and disgrace The other will achieve unparalleled successand in the process transform a sleepy backwater of thirty thousand called Los Angeles into a booming metropolis that will forever change the United States Filled with colorful characters and high drama told at the speed of a locomotive From the River to the Sea is an unforgettable piece of American history that seems to demand a bigscreen treatment The New Yorker. Ch. 18, Section 1. Miners, Ranchers, and Railroads. Mining Boom Brings Growth. Prior to the Civil War most Americans saw the Great Plains and the west as the Great American Desert and there were few attempts to settle there until after the war (#1). W. est?. By: . cady. Wicked Characters. Elphaba. Glinda . The . W. izard of Oz. Fiyero. Nessarose. Boq. Madame Morrible. Doctor Dillimond. The untold story of the Wicked Witch of the West. You may think you know the story, but you really don’t.. The Transcontinental Railroad. What benefits did the Transcontinental Railroad have for the United States?. It started a flood of immigration to the west.. The government gave settlers the land for free because they wanted to have the west cultivated and civilized.. Railroad. By: Anthony ,Brent, Duncan, Cade. What was the transcontinental . railroad?. It is a system of railroads that starts in California and it helped travelers go out west without having to ride in a . pictures: part 3. Free land on the Plains. Propaganda and promises. Go west!. Cheap land offered by railroad companies. Immigrants from Europe, escaping poverty and persecution. Homesteaders from the Eastern States and European immigrants work hard to farm the windswept Plains. Remember what we discussed in 2.1b? About Native Americans?. ***During and after the . Civil War the . US entered a period of rapid economic growth. ****We expanded out West very rapidly. ***Growth . A California Gold Mine in 1849.. Where Americans settle and why. http://mcdc-maps.missouri.edu/totalpop1790-2010/images/1910.jpg. Any of you ever been out West? Through Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas?. Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. 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Seek inspiration from Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing by leading the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II. Meet Elizabeth Jake Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s. Evans shows us how these women built and colored the technologies we can\'t imagine life without.Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied social convention and the longest odds to become database poets, information-wranglers, hypertext dreamers, and glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs. “Riveting...A great read, full of colorful characters and outrageous confrontations back when the west was still wild.” —George R.R. Martin A propulsive and panoramic history of one of the most dramatic stories never told—the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leaders of the Santa Fe and the Rio Grande to seize, control, and create the American West.It is difficult to imagine now, but for all its gorgeous scenery, the American West might have been barren tundra as far as most Americans knew well into the 19th century. While the West was advertised as a paradise on earth to citizens in the East and Midwest, many believed the journey too hazardous to be worthwhile—until 1869, when the first transcontinental railroad changed the face of transportation. Railroad companies soon became the rulers of western expansion, choosing routes, creating brand-new railroad towns, and building up remote settlements like Santa Fe, Albuquerque, San Diego, and El Paso into proper cities. But thinning federal grants left the routes incomplete, an opportunity that two brash new railroad men, armed with private investments and determination to build an empire across the Southwest clear to the Pacific, soon seized, leading to the greatest railroad war in American history. In From the River to the Sea, bestselling author John Sedgwick recounts, in vivid and thrilling detail, the decade-long fight between General William J. Palmer, the Civil War hero leading the “little family” of his Rio Grande, and William Barstow Strong, the hard-nosed manager of the corporate-minded Santa Fe. What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in Colorado soon evolves into an all-out battle as each man tries to outdo the other—claiming exclusive routes through mountains, narrow passes, and the richest silver mines in the world enlisting private armies to protect their land and lawyers to find loopholes dispatching spies to gain information and even using the power of the press and incurring the wrath of the God-like Robber Baron Jay Gould—to emerge victorious. By the end of the century, one man will fade into anonymity and disgrace. The other will achieve unparalleled success—and in the process, transform a sleepy backwater of thirty thousand called “Los Angeles” into a booming metropolis that will forever change the United States. Filled with colorful characters and high drama, told at the speed of a locomotive, From the River to the Sea is an unforgettable piece of American history “that seems to demand a big-screen treatment” (The New Yorker). Women are not ancillary to the history of technology they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they\'ve often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don\'t even realize.Author Claire L. Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the internet what it is today. Learn from Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, who wove numbers into the first program for a mechanical computer in 1842. Seek inspiration from Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing by leading the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II. Meet Elizabeth Jake Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s. 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