Description: Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword
Review Quotes: . . . . a definitive corporate biography . . . a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of the West and Southwest. Written in a style that will appeal to both the general reader and the scholar, the book is populated with a rich cast of characters from magnate E. H. Harriman to engine crews and section gangs along the Sunset Route. --Keith Bryant, author of Culture in the American Southwest--Keith Bryant