Ten Mile Day and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad - Hardcover

Fraser, Mary Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805019022 ISBN 13: 9780805019025

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1993

Synopsis

Challenged to lay a full ten miles of railroad track in one day in exchange for four times their wages, the Chinese men working on America's first continental railroad in 1869 face their greatest challenge yet.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Ann Fraser has illustrated more than forty books for children, and is the author-illustrator of a growing list of popular middle-grade books that focus on U.S. history. Her In Search of the Grand Canyon was voted a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and Ten Mile Day was an American Bookseller Pick, of the Lists. A graduate of Exter College of Art Design, she lives with her husband and three children in Simi Valley, California.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-6-- The day that 10 miles of railroad track were laid on the Union Pacific end of the transcontinental railroad was indeed a remarkable one for laborers, suppliers, and organizers. It was never duplicated. Other historians mention this achievement, but Fraser captures the action in brilliantly rendered oils. Her laborers look like workers--not just men standing around. In a few useful sidebars and in informative endpapers, she adds details that enlarge upon and enhance the text. For the full history of 19th-century railroad building--with its problems, politics, people--read Leonard Everett Fisher's Tracks Across America (Holiday, 1992). But Ten Mile Day is in a class by itself. It is a picture-book slice of American history that should pique readers' interest. --George Gleason, Department of English, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield
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About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0805019022
• ISBN 13: 9780805019025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1