Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad by Rhoda Blumberg

Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad

Rhoda Blumberg

160 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Influenced both by the Gold Rush and the Civil War, America came to realize that a link to the far West was vital. In the mid-1800s, the Union Pacific railroad company, along with their rival, the Central Pacific company, raced to cover the most g...

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