The Missabe Road: The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway

San Marino, California: Golden West Books, 1972. Hardcover. VG/G. boards have edge-wear & rubbing to corners & spine ends. creasing to corners. pgs clean. dustjacket torn & worn at top corner; wear to cover edges; scuffs & scratches. textured, red boards w/ gilt spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 224 pgs w/ bw illustrations. pictorial, paper dustjacket. contents as follows: The Vermilion encounter -- A railroad through the wilderness -- The Duluth and Iron Range comes of age -- The Merritts' great adventure -- The DM&N under Rockefeller control -- The view from the year 1901 -- Peace and progress, 1901-1914 -- From World War I through the twenties -- Depression thirties and wartime forties -- Of iron mines and mining operations -- Post-World War II -- Beginning of the Taconite era. (Inventory #: 178639)