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Union Pacific Railroad Company
Built to promote routes, lands, and western travel, this corporate author published lively railroad histories, guidebooks, and promotional works tied to the expansion of the American West. Its books offer a vivid window into how one of the nation’s most important railroads told its own story.
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Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Cedar Breaks, Kaibab Forest, North Rim of Grand Canyon
by Union Pacific Railroad Company
Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
by Union Pacific Railroad Company
About the author
The Union Pacific Railroad Company is not an individual writer but a corporate author connected with one of the best-known railroads in the United States. Library records identify it as the credited author of works such as Union Pacific Railroad, Yellowstone National Park, Guide to the Union Pacific railroad lands, and other historical and promotional publications.
Those books were closely tied to the railroad’s role in western expansion. Background sources on Union Pacific describe the company as a major American railroad founded in the 19th century and central to the story of the first transcontinental railroad, which helps explain why so many of its publications focus on routes, settlement, scenery, and travel in the West.
For readers today, works credited to the Union Pacific Railroad Company are useful less as personal literature than as firsthand corporate storytelling. They preserve the language, ambitions, and salesmanship of the railroad era, making them interesting documents of transportation history and American expansion.