{"product_id":"follow-the-flag-9780875803289","title":"Follow the Flag","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFollow the Flag\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the Heart of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks in part to the genius of financier Jay Gould, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis \u0026amp; Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major contribution to our understanding of American railroad development.... Grant unfolds the Wabash's dense history with his customary professionalism and close attention to detail. His work has always been distinguished by a congenial blend of the railroad buff's enthusiasm and the historian's expertise, and this book is no exception. The research is thorough, meticulous, and wide-ranging.... Railroad historians and those interested in American business and economic development will find much to intrigue and inform them.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the best in the genre of traditional corporate history. For historians of transportation, business, labor, or even medicine, there is much to recommend it. Extensively researched and fully documented, it stands as a model of scholarship. If only we had histories of the several dozen other major U.S. railroads that were as good as this one.\u003c\/p\u003e * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Follow the Flag\"\u003c\/i\u003e reaffirms Roger Grant's status as one of the preeminent historians of transportation in the United States.... One of the great strengths of the book is that the author was able to write such a detailed and balanced history even though most of the Wabash's corporate records have long since vanished.... Rail fans surely will love this book. Academic historians will appreciate the effective use of sources, the compilation of information on a significant American railroad, and above all, the lucid exposition of a precedent-setting transportation firm whose activities reverberated throughout the government, the business realm, and local communities.\u003c\/p\u003e * Enterprise \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA solid, satisfying work on the Wabash. It is a welcome history of the quintessential midwestern railroad.\u003c\/p\u003e * Michigan Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA well-written, in-depth history of the railroad.\u003c\/p\u003e * Trains Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Wabash Emerges East of the Mississippi River 2. The Wabash Emerges West of the Mississippi River 3. The Jay Gould Years 4. The Wabash Matures 5. \"Follow the Flag\" 6. Reorganization, War, Boom, and Bust 7. Depression, Rebirth, and World War II 8. The New Wabash 9. A Fallen Flag Epilogue Notes Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039011438935,"sku":"9780875803289","price":44.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780875803289.jpg?v=1750942273","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/follow-the-flag-9780875803289","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}