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Overview"Chartered in 1827 as the country's first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation's great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&O's beginning and its unprecedented plan to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, considered to be the most ambitious engineering feat of its time. The B&O's success ignited ""railroad fever"" and helped to catapult railroading to America's most influential industry in the nineteenth century. Taking the B&O helm during the railroads' expansive growth in the 1850s, Garrett soon turned his attention to the demands of the Civil War. Sander explains how, despite suspected Southern sympathies, Garrett became one of President Abraham Lincoln's most trusted confidantes and strategists, making the B&O available for transporting Northern troops and equipment to critical battles. The Confederates attacked the B&O 143 times, but could not put ""Mr. Lincoln's Road"" out of business. After the war, Garrett became one of the first of the famed Gilded Age tycoons, rising to unimagined power and wealth. Sander explores how-when he was not fighting fierce railroad wars with competitors-Garrett steered the B&O into highly successful entrepreneurial endeavors, quadrupling track mileage to reach important commercial markets, jumpstarting Baltimore's moribund postwar economy, and constructing lavish hotels in Western Maryland to open tourism in the region. Sander brings to life the brazen risk-taking, clashing of oversized egos, and opulent lifestyles of the Gilded Age tycoons in this richly illustrated portrait of one man's undaunted efforts to improve the B&O and advance its technology. Chronicling the epic technological transformations of the nineteenth century, from rudimentary commercial trade and primitive transportation westward to the railroads' indelible impact on the country and the economy, John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett's twenty-six-year reign." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kathleen Waters SanderPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.726kg ISBN: 9781421422206ISBN 10: 1421422204 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 20 July 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Prologue: Taking Hold of the Throttle Part One: To the West: 1790-1861Chapter 1: The Whole Population is in Motion: 1790-1828Chapter 2: A Flourishing Condition: 1828-1840Chapter 3: An Era of Fine Pickings: 1840-1855Chapter 4: The Race to the Ohio: 1852-1858Chapter 5: The Personification of Firmness: 1858-1860Chapter 6: Railroad Competition and Coordination--and Political Division: 1858-1861 Part Two ""Mr. Lincoln's Road"": 1861-1865Chapter 7: In the Thick of the Struggle: 1861Chapter 8: A Southern Line No More: 1862-1863Chapter 9: The Right Arm of the Federal Government: 1863-1865 Part Three: Empire Building and Collapse: 1866-1915Chapter 10: A New World Order: 1866-1871 Chapter 11: Go West, Railroad President--and South: 1868-1873Chapter 12: The Czar of Maryland: 1866-1873Chapter 13: The Storm Is Upon You: 1873-1877Chapter 14: His Willpower Remained Unimpaired: 1878-1883Chapter 15: Final Battles: 1880-1884Chapter 16: After Garrett: 1884-1915 EpilogueEssay on SourcesAcknowledgements"ReviewsThe book is an excellent social, political, and commercial history of 19th-century Baltimore and the nation... Highly recommended. * Choice * Author InformationKathleen Waters Sander teaches history at the University of Maryland University College. She is the author of The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900 and Mary Elizabeth Garrett: Society and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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