Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad

From: Business History Review | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad. By H. Roger Grant. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. xvi + 223 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 0-875-80365-2.

Reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams

The history of railroading in the United States is replete with success stories. First movers like the Baltimore & Ohio or transcontinental pioneers like the Union Pacific have attracted the attention of scholars for decades and will continue to capture the imagination of both professional and amateur railroad historians. But what ...

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