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MARC recordContinental dash: the Russian-American telegraph / Rosemary Neering.
| Title: | Continental dash: the Russian-American telegraph / Rosemary Neering. |
| Author(s): | Neering, Rosemary. |
| Date: | 1989. |
| Publisher: | Ganges, BC: Horsdal & Schubart |
| Abstract: | Tells of Western Union's 1860s attempt to build telegraph connecting Seattle to Siberia across British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska. |
| Keywords: | 654 -- Telecommunications and signalling. 654.14 -- Telegraphy. 93 -- History. 061.5 -- Business enterprises: Western Union. V -- History. (*41) -- Canada. (*429) -- British Columbia. (*430) -- Yukon Territory. (*49) -- Alaska. (*50) -- Soviet Union. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 654.14 |
| SPRI record no.: | 101284 |
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