Pere Marquette

Author : Graydon M. Meints
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611863659
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pere Marquette written by Graydon M. Meints and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pere Marquette Railroad has not one but two histories--one for the twentieth century and one for the nineteenth. While the twentieth-century record of the Pere Marquette Railroad has been well studied and preserved, the nineteenth century has not been so well served. This volume aims to correct that oversight by focusing on the nineteenth-century part of the company's past, including the men who formed and directed these early roads, and the development of the system. The Pere Marquette Railroad was formed in 1900 by a merger of three Michigan railroad companies and lasted forty-seven years, disappearing in June 1947 by merger into the maw of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Prior to the 1900 merger, the Pere Marquette Railroad's predecessors made up a motley collection of disconnected and unaffiliated short, local rail lines. After the financial panic of 1893, and with some commonality of ownership, the companies worked together more closely. Before the end of the decade, the three main railroads--the Flint & Pere Marquette; the Detroit, Lansing & Northern; and the Chicago & West Michigan--had decided that the only way to maintain solvency was to merge. Using a plethora of primary sources including railway timetables and maps, this work lends insight into the little-known corporate business history of the Pere Marquette Railroad.

Author : Matthew Allen Supinski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pere Marquette River written by Matthew Allen Supinski and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard C. Keating
Publisher : Missouri Botanical Garden Press
ISBN 13 : 9781935641131
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pere Marquette State Park, Jersey County, Illinois written by Richard C. Keating and published by Missouri Botanical Garden Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pere Marquette State Park in Jersey County, Illinois is Illinois' largest, natural landscape state park. This field guide to the park, the first comprehensive and illustrated guide to any Illinois state park, introduces readers to the fascinating history and rich ecology of the park. On its west side, the eight-thousand-acre landscape is bounded by the Illinois River near its confluence with the Mississippi, and it is situated on one of the state's few unglaciated regions, while the rugged topography exposes ancient geology and supports a diversity of forests and prairies.--

Author : Jim Kjelgaard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Explorations of Père Marquette written by Jim Kjelgaard and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Jesuit priest and his adventurer-companion who opened for the world the Mississippi and the Great Lakes basin.

Author : T.J. Gaffney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439648093
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pere Marquette 1225 written by T.J. Gaffney and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Rail: Pere Marquette 1225 presents the history of steam locomotive 1225, one of 39 Berkshire Class 2-8-4’s built between 1937 and 1944 for the Pere Marquette Railway. Although it is best known for being the sound and image behind the movie adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s The Polar Express, 1225 has a rich history that preceded a life as a movie star. From her construction at Lima Locomotive Works and important role in hauling material from factories to the front in World War II to her unlikely preservation on Michigan State University’s campus and eventual restoration, the history of 1225 covers nearly 75 years. The locomotive is now housed at the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, Michigan, and the story behind it will take readers back to a time when whistles in the night charged the imagination and the United States truly was the “Arsenal of Democracy.”

Author : Agnes Repplier
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0898751446
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pere Marquette written by Agnes Repplier and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Pere Marquette, S.J., a Jesuit Priest in the early 1600's on the North American Continent, gained the confidence of the Indians, not only with his Catholic Religion, but his wisdom and understanding of the American Indian, and his major achievements being his exploring expeditions, most notably the exploring expedition down the Mississippi River.

Author : Jim Kjelgaard
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Explorations of Père Marquette written by Jim Kjelgaard and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Explorations of Père Marquette" by Jim Kjelgaard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simpson v. Pere Marquette Railway Co., 276 MICH 653 (1936) written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 78

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manistee National Forest (N.F.), Pere Marquette Wild and Scenic River (WSR), Proposed written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graydon M. Meints
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 087013938X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michigan Railroads & Railroad Companies written by Graydon M. Meints and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1993-01-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies is an invaluable reference manual for everyone interested in regional transportation history, the history of railroading, and Michigan history in general. It contains complete, cross-referenced listings for every company formed to operate a railroad in the state of Michigan. In addition to the comprehensive entries for major lines, Graydon Meints has included details about the many small, common-carrier steam and electric companies, logging roads, and numerous other primitive and contemporary rail systems. This encyclopedic reference guide also contains information on the so-called "paper railroads," companies that were projected but which never laid a foot of track. Michigan Railroads is divided into three parts. One includes alphabetical entries for the actual and intended railroad companies themselves, the date and purpose for their organization, and a brief history from their origins to their dispositions. Included in this portion of the work are a number of railroad "family trees" showing the corporate antecedents of the largest of the rail lines operating in the state today. Another contains a chronology of significant corporate events; it works as a useful finding aid for accessing source data contained in the first section. A third contains a statewide county-by-county listing of railroads, both paper and real.