Gateway to the northern plains [electronic resource] : railroads and the birth of Fargo and Moorhead / Carroll Engelhardt.
Material type: TextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007Description: xx, 366 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Northern Pacific Railway Company -- History | Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) -- History | Fargo (N.D.) -- History -- 19th century | Moorhead (Minn.) -- History -- 19th century | Fargo (N.D.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century | Moorhead (Minn.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 978.4/1301 LOC classification: F644.F2 | E54 2007Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
At the crossing : the incorporation of Fargo and Moorhead -- Booster dreams : Henry Bruns and Moorhead's collapse -- Boomtown on the prairie : Fargo becomes a gateway city -- Old and new Americans : the people of Fargo and Moorhead -- Domestic virtues : middle-class moral order -- Vagabonds, workers, and purveyors of vice -- Building a better community : the politics of good government.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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