Papers relating to the ceremonial completion of the Southern Pacific Company's linkage of the Oregon and California Railroad and the former California and Oregon Railroad at Ashland, Oregon, 1887-1958 (bulk 1887)

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Papers relating to the ceremonial completion of the Southern Pacific Company's linkage of the Oregon and California Railroad and the former California and Oregon Railroad at Ashland, Oregon, 1887-1958 (bulk 1887)

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Transcripts of articles from the Jacksonville, Oregon, Democratic Times, December, 1887; photocopy of letter, "Chas. to Sister," Ashland, December 18, 1887; and letters from J.N. Bowman, 1958. Primarily concerns the spike driven by Charles Crocker at the ceremony.

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Southern Pacific Company

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What started as a boycott by the American Railway Union against Pullman's Palace Car Co. in 1894 escalated to a strike covering the area from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. On the premise of interfering with the mails the federal government intervened and crushed the strike. From the description of Journal of incidents in San Francisco resulting from the American Railway Union strike, 1894 June 27-Aug. 31. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record ...

Bowman, J. N. 1875-1968.

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