- Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 366 p.) : ill., maps.
- Uniform Title
- Gateway to the northern plains (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Gateway to the northern plains (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-350) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Railroads at Red River -- 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 -- In pursuit of vice and moral order -- 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.
- LCCN
- 2006103291
- OCLC
- ssj0000160854
- Author
Engelhardt, Carroll L.
- Title
Gateway to the northern plains [electronic resource] : railroads and the birth of Fargo and Moorhead / Carroll Engelhardt.
- Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-350) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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