Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental RailroadA dramatic history of the construction of America's first transcontinental railroad chronicles three seminal decades in American history, describing the vast enterprise to build a railroad from Missouri to the Pacific in terms of the remarkable expansion of the United States of America. 30,000 first printing. |
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User Review - christinejoseph - LibraryThingTranscontinental Railroad — building all crooks — wonder it got built! — Very interesting history of country After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth ... Read full review
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User Review - Ed - GoodreadsVery well researched. I read this book after reading Abrose's "Nothing Like it in the World". Like both books but this had more detail. Read full review
Contents
For All the Human Family I | 3 |
Who Can Oppose Such a Work? I | 16 |
The Great Object for Which We Were Created I | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad |
| Author | David Haward Bain |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Viking, 1999 |
| ISBN | 067080889X, 9780670808892 |
| Length | 797 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / 19th Century |
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