during the age of railways. Don L. Hofsommer uses the BC&N as the vehicle for his investigation of the birth, evolution, and...... more

horse to the present. It is more than a study of a single, albeit significant American state. Hofsommer superbly relates...... more

’ golden age as the prime carrier of passengers and products. As traced by Don L. Hofsommer in the full archives of the QA&P...... more

companion volume to Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland (IUP, 2005), H. Roger Grant and Don L. Hofsommer explore the pivotal role that...... more

flavor. Authors Don L. Hofsommer and Carlos A. Schwantes weave a captivating narrative that celebrates Missouri’s...... more

historians, Peter Hansen, Don Hofsommer and Carols Schwantes. - Heavily illustrated and accessibly written it should appeal to...... more

1. Partnership with the Center for Railroad Photography & Art. They are doing a traveling exhibition... more

Genuinely talented and successful managers in any field--business, government, military, academia--a... more

. Hofsommer records the end of branchline passenger service, the demise of electric railroads, the transition from steam to diesel...... more

by the enormous Falls of St. Anthony. In Minneapolis and the Age of Railways, Don Hofsommer presents Minneapolis from the...... more

Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and...... more

. Louis Railway (M&StL), railroad historian Don L. Hofsommer revives the memory of a storied regional railroad. The...... more

. Hofsommer In the 1960s, Richard S. Prosser prepared Rails to the North Star, the first work to trace the routes of Minnesota s...... more

to Marshalltown, Don Hofsommer examines how this unremarkable, plain vanilla railway was an example of the life cycle...... more

Don L. Hofsommer offers a comprehensive biography of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway and its Minnesota, Iowa, South...... more

The definitive history of one of the nation’s great transcontinental railroads In the sprawling Nort... more

histories, and archival material, Hofsommer uncovers the interesting and complex history of Grand Trunk from its inception in...... more