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The Transcontinental Railroad : a primary source history of America's first coast-to-coast railroad

Describes the people, circumstances, and events surrounding the building of the railway system across the continent in the mid-nineteenth century
eBook, English, 2003
Rosen Central Primary Source, New York, 2003
Nonfiction
1 online resource (64 pages : illustrations (some color), map).
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Railroad beginnings
Timeline
Picking the route
Theodore Judah and the Big Four
The Union Pacific builds West
Carving out the Sierra Nevada
Brigham Young and the Mormons
The Golden Spike
Riding the rails
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