A Man of DestinySimon and Schuster, 1981 - 569 pages In the late 1800s a determined young man from New York, finding himself suddenly poverty-stricken, decides to seek his fortune in San Francisco by building a railroad through the impenetrable Sierra Nevada Mountains. |
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