Wired Into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier

by James Schwoch

Book Overview

The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon, and control a continent.

Merging new research with bold interpretation, James Schwoch details the unexplored dimensions of the frontier telegraph and its impact. The westward spread of telegraphy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252083407
• ISBN13: 9780252083402
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"