The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad played an important role in the transformation of settlement, agriculture, commerce, and recreation in North America. This project, a collaboration with the Newberry Library, illustrates how archival materials can show the way that a variety of actors—railroad executives, girl scouts, advertising men, European settlers, farmers, and entrepreneurs—shaped the way landscapes were marketed, perceived, and used.
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- Olmanson, Eric D. Virtual Exhibition at the Landscape Promotion and Transformation along the CB&Q Railroad Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions 2011, no. 1. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
- Overton, Richard C. Burlington Route: A History of the Burlington Lines. New York: Knopf, 1965.
- Schwantes, Carlos A. Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
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