In the 1860s, Americans, Russians and Canadians struggled with starvation, rugged terrain and sub-Arctic winters to connect the continents by telegraph-the world's largest building project at that time. The hundreds of miles of telegraph line built in Canada operated for 113 years.
Continental Dash tells the remarkable story for the first time from the standpoint of the workers.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography: p. 222-225
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 384.1/0918/23
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0920663079 9781459331310
- LCCN
- TK5122
- LCCN Item number
- N43 1989eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 230 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)mat17809342 (OCoLC)244769137 (CaOOCEL)419918
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Table of Contents
- Contents 10
- Maps 4
- Introduction and Acknowledgements 12
- 1 Lightning Speaks 14
- 2 Overland to the Amur 21
- 3 Connecting the Continents 31
- 4 On Your Mark: The Dash Begins 39
- 5 Get Set: Headquarters, San Francisco 46
- 6 Go! British Columbia, 1865 50
- 7 British Columbia, 1865: Into Unknown Territory 62
- 8 Siberia, 1865: First Sight 76
- 9 Siberia, 1865: North from the Amur 84
- 10 Siberia, 1865: On to Gizhiga 96
- 11 Siberia, 1865: On the Anadyr 111
- 12 Russian America, 1865: Stalemate 114
- 13 Around the Pacific Rim 126
- 14 The Race Continues 132
- 15 British Columbia, 1866: "This Infernal Country" 137
- 16 Siberia, 1866: Reunion 149
- 17 Siberia, 1866-67: Year of Famine 163
- 18 Russian America, 1866: Arctic Heartbreak 181
- 19 Russian America, 1866-67: Yukon and Bering Strait 189
- 20 "They Have Chained the Lightning and Laid It Low" 206
- 21 1867: End of the Race 211
- 22 Aftermath 222
- Footnotes 229
- Bibliography 235
- Index 239
- A 239
- B 239
- C 240
- D 240
- E 240
- F 240
- G 241
- H 241
- I 241
- J 241
- K 241
- L 241
- M 242
- N 242
- O 242
- P 242
- Q 242
- R 242
- S 242
- T 243
- U 243
- V 243
- W 243
- Y 243
- Z 243
