Author: KNEISS, GILBERT H.
Title: Bonanza Railroads: Revised Edition
Description: Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Stated fourth edition, September 1954. A history of six short-line railroads operating in the gold and silver mining areas of the Sierra Nevada and to the east in Nevada from about 1854 to 1874. With endpaper maps of these lines, numerous black & white photos and drawings, and rosters of the 6 railroads. --- In tan and red cloth-covered boards with locomotive image to cover and spine titling in black and tan. Jacket with Arthur Lites drawing of a Virginia City crowd awaiting the arrival of a train. --- A well-preserved copy: clean and unmarked though with mild edgewear and discreet San Francisco bookseller label to rear paste-down. Rather brittle dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges, else bright, mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; xviii, 187 pages. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: >>Railroads, Aviation & Transportation