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Selected items from the British Library Collection relating to the Pacific Railroad
Courtesy of the British Library, Public Catalog.


Title:     The heavy hand. the government and the Union Pacific, 1862-1898.
William F. Huneke
Author:     Huneke. William F.. William Frederick. 1953-
Series:     American economic history
Subject:     Union Pacific Railroad
Subject:     United States. Western states. Railways: Union Pacific
Railroad,. history
Publication details:     New York. London. Garland Publishing. 1985
Description:     166p. 24cm
Shelfmark:     YC.1989.b.2299
Notes:     Thesis (Ph.D) University of Virginia, 1983
Notes:     Bibliography: p163-166
Title:     The story of the first trans-continental railroad. its
projectors, construction and history. compiled and published by W. F. Bailey
Author:     Bailey. W. F.. William Francis. 1861-
Subject:     Union Pacific railroad
Publication details:     Fair Oaks, Calif.. W. F. Bailey. c1906
Description:     164 p. 20 cm
Shelfmark:     Mic.A.12533
Copy Notes:     MICROFILM. - 1 reel. - 35mm. - Microfilm of a copy in the
Library of Congress
Title:     A sketch of the life of Mark Hopkins of California. B. B. Redding
Author:     Redding. B. B.. Benjamin B.. 1824-1882
Subject:     Hopkins. Mark. 1813-1878
Subject:     Central Pacific Railroad Company. History
Publication details:     San Francisco. A.L. Bancroft & Co. 1881
Description:     34 p.. port.. 25 cm
Shelfmark:     Mic.A.16138
Copy Notes:     Microfilm, Berkeley, University of California, Library
Photographic Service, 1985, 1 microfilm reel; 35mm., 12ft. - Microfilm of
the copy in the Bancroft Library
Title:     A railroad to the sea. by Levi O. Leonard [and] Jack T. Johnson
Author:     Leonard. Levi O.
Joint author/editor:     Johnson. Jack T.. Jack Thomas
Subject:     Union Pacific Railroad
Publication details:     Iowa City, Iowa. Midland House. 1939
Description:     xi, 277 p. front., plates, ports. 22 cm
Shelfmark:     Mic.A.18419
Copy Notes:     MICROFILM. - 1 reel; 35mm. - UMI microfilm MW282, 1991
Title:     A reminiscence of the Union Pacific Railroad. containing some
account of the discovery of the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains and of
the great Indian battle of July 11, 1867. by Silas Seymour. with
illustrations by I.P. Pranishnikoff
Author:     Seymour. Silas. 1817-1890
Series:     CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series CIHM/ICMH collection de
microfiches. no. 13471
Subject:     Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject:     Railroads. United States
Subject:     Dakota Indians. Wars
Subject:     Rocky Mountains region. Exploring expeditions
Publication details:     [Quebec?. s.n.]. 1873. Quebec. A. Cot
Description:     2 microfiches (56 fr.).. ill
ISBN:     0665134711 (Positive copy)
Shelfmark:     Mic.F.232
Title:     Incidents of a trip through the great Platte Valley, to the Rocky
Mountains and Laramie Plains, in the fall of 1866. with a synoptical
statement of the various Pacific railroads, and an account of the great
Union Pacific Railroad excursion to the one hundredth meredian of longitude
Author:     Seymour. Silas. 1817-1890
Series:     CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series CIHM/ICMH collection de
microfiches. no. 14785
Subject:     Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject:     Railroads. United States
Subject:     Railroads. Canada
Subject:     West (U.S.). Description and travel. 1860-1880
Edition:     2nd ed
Publication details:     New York. D. Van Nostrand. 1867
Description:     1 microfiche (71 fr.)
ISBN:     0665147856 (Positive copy)
Shelfmark:     Mic.F.232
Notes:     Attributed to Silas Seymour--Canadiana 1867-1900
Title:     Union Pacific Railroad. report of Thomas C. Durant,
vice-president and general manager, to the Board of Directors, in relation
to the surveys made up to the close of the year 1864
Author:     Durant. Thomas C.. Thomas Clark. 1820-1885
Series:     CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series CIHM/ICMH collection de
microfiches. no. 23383
Subject:     Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject:     Railroads. United States. Surveying
Publication details:     [New York?. s.n.]. 1866. New York. W.C. Bryant
Description:     2 microfiches (59 fr.). ill
ISBN:     0665233833 (Positive copy)
Shelfmark:     Mic.F.232
Notes:     Tables
Title:     Union Pacific Salt Lake route. Mark W. Hemphill
Author:     Hemphill. Mark W.. 1958-
Subject:     Union Pacific Railroad. History
Subject:     Railroads. Pacific States. History
Publication details:     Erin, Ont.. Stoddart. 1995
Description:     176p. col. ill. col. maps. 28 x 30 cm
ISBN:     1550461389. m
Shelfmark:     LB.31.b.14209
Notes:     "A Boston Mills Press book."
Notes:     Includes bibliographical references (p. 176)
Title:     Ocean to Ocean. Pacific Railroad and adjoining territories, with
distances and fares of travel from American cities. [With a map.]
Main heading:     CARRINGTON. Margaret Irvin
Publication details:     pp. 31. J. B. Lippincott & Co.: Philadelphia, 1869. 8o.
Shelfmark:     10408.aa.15.
Title:     A Memorial for a Private Charter, asked for by Dr. Hartwell
Carver and his associates to build a railroad from some point on the
Mississippi or Missouri rivers, or from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean.
Main heading:     CARVER. Hartwell
Publication details:     pp. 8. J. & G. S. Gideon: [Washington, D.C., 1849]. 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.h.14.
Title:     The Lands of the Central Pacific Railroad Co. of California with
general information on the resources of the country through which the
railroad takes its way. June 1, 1880.
Main heading:     CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Publication details:     pp. 68. H. S. Crocker & Co.: San Franciso, 1880. 8o.
Shelfmark:     10409.c.1.(3.)
Title:     A Lecture on the Railroad to the Pacific. Delivered, August 12,
1850, at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, etc.
Main heading:     COLTON. Calvin
Publication details:     pp. 16. A. S. Barnes & Co.: New York, 1850. 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.cc.41.(4.)
Title:     Letter ... to ... R. J. Walker upon the subject of Pacific Railroad.
Main heading:     GREEN. Thomas Jefferson
Publication details:     New York, 1853. 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.bbb.48.(4.)
Title:     Two Great Scouts and their Pawnee Battalion. The experiences of
Frank J. North and Luther H. North, pioneers in the Great West, 1856-1882,
and their defence of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. [With a
map.]
Main heading:     GRINNELL. George Bird
Additional headings:     NORTH. Frank Joshua
Additional headings:     NORTH. Luther Hedden
Publication details:     pp. 299. A. H. Clark Co.: Cleveland, 1928. 8o.
Shelfmark:     010883.i.12.
Title:     The Great West. Railroad, steamboat, and stage guide and
hand-book for travellers ... to the Western, Northwestern, and Pacific
States ... With a map, etc.
Main heading:     HALL. Edward Hepple
Publication details:     New York, [1866.] 12o.
Shelfmark:     10413.bb.17.
Title:     Washakie. An account of Indian resistance of the covered wagon
and Union Pacific Railroad invasions of their territory. [With
illustrations, including portraits.]
Main heading:     HEBARD. Grace Raymond
Additional headings:     WASHAKIE, Chief of the Eastern Shoshone Indians
Publication details:     pp. 337. A. H. Clark Co.: Cleveland, 1930. 8o.
Shelfmark:     9551.dd.21.
Title:     Union Pacific. The building of the first trans-continental
railroad. [With plates.]
Main heading:     HOGG. Garry Lester
Publication details:     pp. viii. 166. Hutchinson: London, 1967. 8o.
Shelfmark:     X.519/4419.
Title:     Letter to the Hon. W. M. Gwyn, in relation to the Railroad to the
Pacific by the thirty-fifth and thirty-second parallels. [Being remarks on
the pamphlet of "a Citizen of Arkansas."]
Main heading:     HUMPHREYS. Andrew Atkinson
Publication details:     [Washington, 1858.] 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.h.5.(2.)
Title:     A reply to certain portions of the Minority Report of Z. Kidwell
.... Member of the Select Committee upon the Pacific Railroad.
Main heading:     HUMPHREYS. Andrew Atkinson
Additional headings:     KIDWELL. Hon. Z.
Publication details:     [Washington, 1856.] 8o.
Shelfmark:     8229.f.38.(2.)
Title:     Across the Continent; or, Scenes from New York life and the Pacific railroad.
Main heading:     MACCLOSKEY. James J.
Shelfmark:     W.P.13652/4.
Notes:     In. Goldberg (Isaac) and Heffner (H. C.) Davy Crockett & other
Plays, etc. 1940. 8o.
Title:     The Lands of the South Pacific Railroad Company of California;
with general information on the Resources of Southern California. (The Lands
of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California, etc. [By B. B.
Redding.] Descriptions of the Counties in which the Lands are situated
[reprinted from "The Weekly Call" and "The Bulletin"].)
Main heading:     MADDEN. Jerome
Publication details:     pp. 136. 68. W. G. Kingsbury: London, [1880.] 8o.
Shelfmark:     10411.bbb.1.

Title:     Gems of Rocky Mountain Scenery; containing views along and near
the Union Pacific Railroad.
Main heading:     MATHEWS. Alfred Edward
Publication details:     New York, 1869. fol.
Shelfmark:     10411.i.17.

Title:     Nelson's Pictorial Guide-Books. The Union Pacific Railroad: a
trip across the North-American Continent from Omaha to Ogden, etc. [A series
of 12 views with descriptive letter-press.]
Main heading:     NELSON. Thomas. Publisher
Publication details:     New York, [1870.] obl. 16o.
Shelfmark:     10412.a.33.

Title:     Suggestions on Railroad Communication with the Pacific, and the
trade of China, etc. MS. notes.
Main heading:     PEYTON. John Lewis
Publication details:     Chicago, 1853. 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.bbb.32.
Notes:     Several cuttings from the "Guernsey Star" newspaper, consisting
of letters on the same subject by the author, have been inserted.

Title:     Plumbe's Memorial. Pacific Railroad. To the ... Senate ... of the
United States, in Congress assembled.
Main heading:     PLUMBE. John
Publication details:     [1850.] 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.g.10.(3.)

Title:     The Lands of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California, etc.
Main heading:     REDDING. Benjamin B.
Shelfmark:     10411.bbb.1.
Notes:     In. Madden (J.) The Lands of the South Pacific Railroad Company,
etc. [1880.] 8o.

Title:     List of Birds observed at various localities contiguous to the
Central Pacific Railroad, from Sacramento City ... to Salt Lake Valley, Utah
.... From the Bulletin of the Essex Institute, etc.
Main heading:     RIDGWAY. Robert
Publication details:     [Salem, Mass., 1876.] 8o.
Shelfmark:     7204.bb.3.(17.)

Title:     Speech ... on the Pacific Railroad as a military necessity.
Main heading:     SARGENT. Aaron A.
Publication details:     Washington, 1862. 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.cc.43.(10.)

Title:     Keep government within its limits. Speech of Gerrit Smith, on the
Pacific Railroad, in the House of Representatives, May 30, 1854.
Main heading:     SMITH. Gerrit. of Peterboro, N.Y.
Publication details:     Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1854. pp.
15. 23 cm.
Shelfmark:     1570/1976.
Title:     Indians and buffalo permitting. An account of the construction of
the Union Pacific Railroad to mark the centenary of its completion:
1869-1969.
Main heading:     TRINDER. P. L.. and KNELL (Kenneth Alfred)
Additional headings:     KNELL. Kenneth Alfred
Publication details:     [Cambridge:] Cambridge Society for Industrial
Archaeology, 1974. ISBN 0 904355 03 9 pp. 14; illus., maps. 25 cm.
Shelfmark:     X.611/4254.
Title:     The American Overland Route. The Union and Central Pacific
Railways across the American Continent. Fares, regulations & conditions of
travel ... from Europe, etc. no. 6. Feb. 1876.
Main heading:     UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Additional headings:     CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Publication details:     London, 1876. 8o.
Shelfmark:     P.P.3904.k.
Title:     The Pacific Railroad Company. Offers at public Sale 125,421
79/100 acres of selected ... lands ... on both sides ... of Pacific
Railroad, in tracts of 40 acres and upwards, etc.
Main heading:     UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Publication details:     St. Louis, Mo., 1859. 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.ee.4.(7.)
Title:     Union & Central Pacific R.R. Line, etc. [An illustrated map and
timetable of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads between Omaha
and San Francisco.]
Main heading:     UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Additional headings:     CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Publication details:     [Omaha, 1871.] 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.aaa.42.

Title:     Union Pacific Railroad. Report of F.M. Case of surveys of Cach
La Poudre & South Platte routes and other mountain passes in Colorado.
Main heading:     UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Additional headings:     CASE. Francis M.
Publication details:     [Omaha, Neb., 1864]. pp. 11. 23 cm.
Shelfmark:     1560/4449.
Title:     Union Pacific Railroad. Report of Gen. G. M. Dodge, Chief
Engineer, on lines crossing the Rocky Mountains.
Main heading:     UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Additional headings:     DODGE. Grenville Mellen
Publication details:     New York, 1867. pp. 33: plates; illus. 24 cm.
Shelfmark:     1560/4454.
Uniform title:     Laws and Statutes. II. Collections of Laws on Special
Subjects. Railways
Title:     Acts of Congress relating to the Union Pacific Railroad, passed
between the years 1862 and 1873.
Main heading:     UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Publication details:     pp. 44. Washington, 1873. 8o.
Shelfmark:     A.S.34/4.
Title:     Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most
practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River
to the Pacific Ocean made ... in 1853-4.
Main heading:     UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Departments of State and Public
Institutions. Department of War
Publication details:     12 vol. 1855-59. 4o.
Shelfmark:     A.S.10/4.
Notes:     In. supra: Senate. Senate Documents. 33rd Congress, 2nd Session.
vol. 13.-35th Congress, 2nd Session. vol. 18. 1791, etc. 4o & 8o.
Title:     Reports of Inspection made in the summer of 1877 by Generals P.
H. Sheridan and W. T. Sherman of country north of the Union Pacific
Railroad. [With maps.]
Main heading:     UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Departments of State and Public
Institutions. Department of War
Additional headings:     SHERIDAN. Philip Henry
Additional headings:     SHERMAN. William Tecumseh
Publication details:     pp. 110. pl. 10. Washington, 1878. 8o.
Shelfmark:     A.S.573/13.
Title:     Report upon the Indian tribes. By ... A. W. Whipple, Thomas
Ewbank ... and ... Wm. W. Turner. (Route near the thirty-fifth parallel,
under the Command of Lieut. A. W. Whipple, Topographical Engineers, in 1853
and 1854.-War Department.-Explorations and surveys for a railroad route from
the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.)
Main heading:     WHIPPLE. Amiel Weeks
Additional headings:     EWBANK. Thomas
Additional headings:     TURNER. William Wadden
Series:     (Senate executive documents. vol. 13. 33rd congress. 2nd
session. Ex. Doc. no. 78. vol. 3. pt. 3.)
Publication details:     Washington, 1855. pp. 127: plates; illus., maps. 30
cm.
Shelfmark:     A.S.10/4.[vol.13.pt.3.]
Shelfmark:     1502/314.
Title:     [Another copy.]. Report upon the Indian tribes.
Publication details:     1855.
Title:     Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. A. W.'s Reply to the Hon. S. A.
Douglas.
Main heading:     WHITNEY. Asa. Railway Engineer
Additional headings:     DOUGLAS. Stephen Arnold
Publication details:     [Washington, 1845.] 8o.
Shelfmark:     1298.m.11.(25.)
Notes:     Two leaves.
Title:     A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific ... with reports of
Committees of Congress, etc. [With a map.]
Main heading:     WHITNEY. Asa. Railway Engineer
Publication details:     New York, 1849. 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.cc.22.
Title:     Memorial for a National Railroad to the Pacific Ocean. [A reprint
of the 1847 edition.]
Main heading:     WILKES. George
Series:     [Magazine of History. Extra no. 141.]
Publication details:     pp. 75. Tarrytown, 1928. 4o.
Shelfmark:     P.P.3437.bab.
Title:     Project of a National Railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Ocean, for the purpose of obtaining a short route to Oregon and the Indies.
.... Second edition. Republished from "The History of Oregon," etc.
Main heading:     WILKES. George
Publication details:     New York, 1845. 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.bbb.49.(1.)
Title:     Project of a National Railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Ocean, for the purpose of obtaining a short route to Oregon and the Indies.
.... Second edition. Republished from "The History of Oregon," etc.
Title:     [Another issue.]
Main heading:     WILKES. George
Shelfmark:     1570/3457.
Title:     Railroad communication across the continent, with an account of
the Central Pacific Railroad of California. A description of the route, the
progress and character of the work, its resources and business prospects,
with the foundation and advantages of its first mortgage bonds. New York,
February, 1868
Main heading:     Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publication details:     New York: Brown & Hewitt, printers, 1868.
32p.,1folded leaf of plates, map; 22cm
Shelfmark:     1570/3481
Title:     History of the first mortgage. 30-year 6 percent paramount lien
bonds having priority over the subsidy bonds of the United States issued by
and assigned to Charles Durkee from 1865 to 1869 by the Union and Kansas
Pacific Railroad Co. and the Central and Western Pacific Railroad Company ...
Main heading:     Souder. Jacob J.
Additional headings:     Union and Central Pacific Railroad
Additional headings:     Durkee. Charles
Publication details:     Washington: Printed by Stoner & Hughes, 1912. 224. 25cm
Shelfmark:     YL.1987.b.528
Notes:     The author is named on the cover
Title:     PACIFIC RAILROAD REPORTS
Copyright fee:     British Library not licensed to copy
Shelfmark:     6330.843000
Notes - Cross references:     SEE 7643.8553
Title:     REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS FOR A RAILROAD FROM THE
MISSISIPPI RIVER TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
Shelfmark:     7643.855300n
Notes - Cross references:     SEE CARD INDEX
Title:     Omaha Bridge Bonds, Union Pacific Railroad. Report of the
Committee of Investigation on the merits of this security.
Main heading:     UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Publication details:     pp. 12. Gilbert & Field: London, [1877.] 8o.
Shelfmark:     8235.ee.18.(6.)
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