The Milwaukee Road, Its First Hundred Years
New York: Creative Age Press, 1948. Photos. First Edition. Grey cloth 8vo. stamped in red. Decorative, informative map endpapers. 330 pp. including index. Fine condition / Near fine. Item #596
Third Volume of the Railroads of America Series. To tell the story of The Milwaukee Road is to tell the whole vigorous, romantic story of railroading. For the Milwaukee Road, from its earliest beginnings, has been an organization of superlatives. In fact, accomplishments on the grand scale have always been routine to The Milwaukee.
From a twenty-mile run between Milwaukee and Waukesha in 1851, when the railroad was -extraordinarily enough-financed mainly by individual farm mortgages, to the present ten-thousand-mile spider web spun across the face of America, the road has grown by leaps and bounds; tempestuously, sporadically, and with as much melodrama per minute as possible. Never one to do things halfheartedly, the Milwaukee has had a history of vivid extremes . . . . That's the way the Milwaukee goes. And its whole dramatic story - from Jackson to Truman - is set down in August Derleth's exciting prose. The famous names - Rockefeller, Armour, Flagler, Hill, and Morgan - the places, the times, and events - all are here in this lusty, authentic history of a fabulous railroad which we are proud to present as the third volume of a great series.
Price: $175.00