Pacifique

2007 · 63615 — Coeur d’Alene ID: Museum of North Idaho 2007. Oblong 4to. 548 pp. Photo illustrations and maps throughout. Black publisher’s cloth silver lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. NF/NF copy. First edition of this surprisingly uncommon and well-illustrated work detailing the “engineering techniques bold innovations such as electrification much brand-new equipment and a proactive marketing department.†Rockefeller Henry Rogers and Standard Oil made the decision in 1905 to build West from Mobridge SD to Seattle & Tacoma WA building the final transcontinental railroad in the United States considered the last final burst of the Gilded Age whose efforts forever changed Montana Wyoming Idaho and Washington. Museum of North Idaho, hardcover