Empire Express : Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

Bain, David H.

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Language: English

Published by New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1999, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1999

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Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book contains 797 pages with center section of b&w photographs. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with a single railroad line, Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectively doubled in size, fought three wars, and began to discover a new national identity. Culminating in the driving of the Golden Spike in the Utah desert in 1869, which touched off a frenzey of celebration, the narrative ends in 1873 in Washington under the Capitol rotunda with the crushing fall of a popular politician and the exposure of a powerful, hidden railroad lobby - a scandal, which, for half a year, dominated the press and the country's imagination.

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Title
Empire Express : Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Author
Bain, David H.
Publisher
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1999, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Publication year
1999
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Very Good++
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Very Good++
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Hard Cover/Boards
Language
English
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067080889X
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9780670808892
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8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books

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