West of the Red: The Role of Transportation in the Development of North Dakota

In reading this book you will undoubtedly discover that a history of North Dakota transportation is really a history of the state itself. Whereas states along the eastern seaboard had been settled for 200 years before the whistle of a steamboat or locomotive was heard, rails stretched across Dakota Territory before there was any significant white pioneer settlement. Transportation facilities were built long before there were any towns to serve. The development of agriculture was an immediate necessity if railroads were to survive. The iron horse and the traction engine were partners in the cultivation of the prairies, and although agriculture and transportation were, and are often adversaries, this close and highly interdependent relationship has continued to the present day.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=1116
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/66401
• Supplemental Notes:
  • First printing January 1977; Second printing July 1996; Third printing September 2009.
• Corporate Authors:

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052
• Authors:
  • Schneider, Richard
• Publication Date: 1977-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Bibliography; Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: 215p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Development; History; Transportation
• Geographic Terms: North Dakota
• Subject Areas: History; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01873176
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 15 2023 11:53AM