Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Looks at the history of transportation in the United States, discussing the need for railroads and steamships and how they impacted the nation.

"When Robert Fulton installed a steam engine in the side wheel boat North River Steamboat in 1807, the world changed forever. With this innovation, riversthe na

A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century. To many people in the nineteenth cent