Union Pacific Railroad Company

Founded by Congress in 1862, the Union Pacific Railroad Company became one of the central builders of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Beyond laying track, the company also produced a large body of printed material under its own name, including travel guides, regional descriptions, railroad histories, and promotional works aimed at passengers, investors, and prospective settlers.

Many of these publications were practical and persuasive at the same time: they described routes, landscapes, resources, and towns along Union Pacific lines while also encouraging tourism and western migration. Because of that, books credited to the company are useful not just as railroad documents, but as snapshots of how a major corporation presented the West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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