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In this social background of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Offer specializes in the railroad's "Golden Age group," 1830-1930. To fully capture the fact of the nation's railroad experience, Offer explores four important topics - trains and travel, coach channels, railroads and community life, and the legacy of railroading in America. Offer recalls the prolonged memories kept by coach travel, both of luxurious Pullman cars and the grit and grind of coal-powered local people. He discusses the top role railroads played for towns and locations across America, not only for the access they provided to distant places and distant markets but also for the depots which were a target of community life. Finally, Offer reviews the prolonged heritage of the railroads as it has been preserved in expression, stone, color, and memory space. Railroads and the American People is a gleaming paean to American railroading by one of its finest historians. The book is publicized by Indiana University or college Press.
