Continuing the saga of his To the Columbia Gateway, the author describes the region’s dramatic railroad book in the years 1885-1893. He traces the expansion of the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific systems in the interior Northwest and chronicles the construction of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern Railway and presents a multi-faceted portrait of railway operations.

By Peter J Lewty

Published by Washington State University Press

Soft Cover | 324 pages. | 6 x 9”