Roughing it in Siberia, with some account of the Trans-Siberian railway, and the gold-mining industry of Asiatic Russia (Registro nro. 116935)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | DK |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Jefferson, Robert L., |
| Dates associated with a name | -1914 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Roughing it in Siberia, with some account of the Trans-Siberian railway, and the gold-mining industry of Asiatic Russia |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-06-01 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Alan, Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Roughing it in Siberia, with some account of the Trans-Siberian railway, and…." by Robert L. Jefferson is a travel narrative written in the late 19th century. It follows a winter journey across the Urals and deep into Western and Central Siberia by train and sledge, mixing vivid reportage of the new Trans-Siberian line with sketches of frontier towns, emigrant caravans, Cossack life, and the gold-mining economy. Expect candid, unvarnished observations on Russian travel, lodging, food, and officialdom alongside clear explanations of colonization policy and infrastructure. Readers interested in railways, empire, and hard travel will find a first-hand, opinionated guide. The opening of the book follows the narrator and three companions as their slow train crosses the Urals into Asia amid stifling carriages and raucous station buffets, reaching Chelyabinsk and the threshold of the Trans-Siberian. He sketches theatrical station rituals and a tussle with officious chinovniks, then turns to the vast snowy steppe and Kurgan to explain Russia’s colonization drive—cheap fares, land grants, and emigrants packed into cattle cars. Observations on church dominance and military discipline include an anecdote contrasting Russian obedience with Western soldiers. Arriving at Omsk by hurtling sledge, they find wretched lodgings and a merchant city wary of the railway; he also visits Khirghiz Cossack camps. The party is ferried by sledge over the hummocked, frozen Obi between Kreveschokovo and Ob, waits long hours at Tigre in deep forest, and jolts on the shabby Tomsk branch. In Tomsk, amid extreme cold and foul hotels, he surveys the town, calls on a rough millionaire gold-miner, tours the Government assay and vaults with a mining chief, and outlines strict rules facing prospectors. He closes this opening section with critical notes on the poorly laid, curve-ridden mountain stretches that slow the line eastward. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: S. Low, Marston & company, 1897 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924028465668">https://archive.org/details/cu31924028465668</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76210">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76210</a> |
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