Creston

Released on by Dianne R. Osmun
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  • Creston Book Detail

  • Author : Dianne R. Osmun
  • Release Date : 2011-03-07
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Genre : Photography
  • Pages : 132
  • ISBN 13 : 1439625638
  • File Size : 38,38 MB
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Creston by Dianne R. Osmun PDF Summary

Book Description: 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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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 poin

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