The Resource Across America on an emigrant train, by Jim Murphy ; illustrated with photographs and prints
Across America on an emigrant train, by Jim Murphy ; illustrated with photographs and prints
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The item Across America on an emigrant train, by Jim Murphy ; illustrated with photographs and prints represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Across America on an emigrant train, by Jim Murphy ; illustrated with photographs and prints represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 150 p.
- Note
- U.S. map on endpapers
- Contents
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- Journey begins
- All aboard!
- Aboard the emigrant train
- Into the Wild West
- Across the high Sierras
- In the good country
- Final word
- Isbn
- 9780756991449
- Label
- Across America on an emigrant train
- Title
- Across America on an emigrant train
- Statement of responsibility
- by Jim Murphy ; illustrated with photographs and prints
- Subject
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- United States -- Description and travel
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Travel -- United States -- Juvenile literature
- United States -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature
- Authors, Scottish -- 19th century -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
- Railroads -- History
- Railroad travel -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 828/.803
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plans
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR5495
- LC item number
- .M79 1993
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Label
- Across America on an emigrant train, by Jim Murphy ; illustrated with photographs and prints
- Note
- U.S. map on endpapers
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index
- Contents
- Journey begins -- All aboard! -- Aboard the emigrant train -- Into the Wild West -- Across the high Sierras -- In the good country -- Final word
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 150 p.
- Isbn
- 9780756991449
- Lccn
- 92038650
- Note
- Spec. Coll. copy: Dust jacket. Quarter burgundy cloth; tan paper over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Gray, map illustrated endpapers. Purchase, Yankee Book Peddler, 1994.
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)27066884
- ucoclc27066884
- Label
- Across America on an emigrant train, by Jim Murphy ; illustrated with photographs and prints
- Note
- U.S. map on endpapers
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index
- Contents
- Journey begins -- All aboard! -- Aboard the emigrant train -- Into the Wild West -- Across the high Sierras -- In the good country -- Final word
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 150 p.
- Isbn
- 9780756991449
- Lccn
- 92038650
- Note
- Spec. Coll. copy: Dust jacket. Quarter burgundy cloth; tan paper over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Gray, map illustrated endpapers. Purchase, Yankee Book Peddler, 1994.
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)27066884
- ucoclc27066884
Subject
- Authors, Scottish -- 19th century -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Railroad travel -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
- Railroads -- History
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Travel -- United States -- Juvenile literature
- United States -- Description and travel
- United States -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature
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