Empire Express: Building The First Transcontinental Railroad

Bain, David Haward

ISBN 10: 067080889X ISBN 13: 9780670808892

Published by Viking Press [1999], New York, 1999

Language: English

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Title

Empire Express: Building The First Transcontinental Railroad

Publisher

Viking Press [1999], New York

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

067080889X

ISBN 13

9780670808892

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

fine

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A 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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