Preliminary Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgements

Prologue: The View from 29,000 Feet and Below
Chapter One: Transportation Corridors Transform the West
Chapter Two: When Railroads Ruled
Chapter Three: Copper Connections and the Last Transcontinental Railroad
Chapter Four: Roads Stretching from Farm to Market, but Seldom Beyond
Chapter Five: The Emergence of New Corridors of Power
Chapter Six: The Twentieth Century Transportation Revolution
Chapter Seven: The New Overland Route
Chapter Eight: Hard Choices for Hard Times
Chapter Nine: Is this Trip Necessary? The Impact of World War II
Chapter Ten: Auto Euphoria and Other Post-War Enthusiasms
Chapter Eleven: The Sky's the Limit
Chapter Twelve: Reinventing the Railroads
Conclusion: The Space of Place
Chapter Notes
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading

Promotional Information

How trains, cars, and planes helped tame and transform the West.

About the Author

Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes is the St. Louis Mercantile Library Endowed Professor of Transportation Studies and the West at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.