Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West
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Published by: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston
Author: Dee Brown
Published by: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston
Author: Dee Brown
Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West
In February 1854 the first railroad from the east reached the Mississippi, by the end of the nineteenth century five major transcontinental railroads linked the East Coast with the Pacific Ocean and thousands of miles of tracks crisscrossed the West, a vast and virginal land just a few years before. The story of this extraordinary undertaking is one of breathtaking technological ingenuity, otherworldly greed. The heroes and villains were Irish laborers, Chinese coolies, intrepid engineers, avaricious bankers, stock manipulators and corrupt politicians.
Hardback, 310 pages.
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