Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David Haward Bain

Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

David Haward Bain

797 pages hardcover 1999

4 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Culminating in the driving of the Golden Spike in the Utah desert in 1869, which touched off a frenzy of celebration, the narrative ends in 1873 in Washington under the Capitol rotunda, with the crushing fall of a popular politician and the exposu...

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