Description: Creston, Iowa, Images of America, Paperback Creston sprang to life on the summit of the high prairie, where railroad officials pitched their camp one night in 1868. Creston was chosen as the division point between the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. The railroad brought its machine shops; roundhouse, and a rip-roaring, brawling construction camp to the new town. By 1869, the area was platted and construction began. Creston became an overnight industrial and transportation center, earning the nickname of "Little Chicago." In 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson implied that the Wild West began in Creston. He reported his first encounter with the open display of handguns in Creston when a passenger, without a ticket, was thrown from a moving train. He later wrote, "They were speaking English all around me, but I knew I was in a foreign land. It was the first indication that I had come among revolvers, and I observed it with some emotion."
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9780738583457
Book Title: Creston
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Item Height: 0.3 in
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, United States / MidWest / West North Central (IA, Ks, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Sd), United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
Publication Year: 2011
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Photography, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Dianne R. Osmun
Book Series: Images of America Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
