EMPIRE EXPRESS; BUILDING THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

Bain, David Haward

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ISBN 10: 067080889X ISBN 13: 9780670808892

Published by Viking/Penguin Group, New York, 1999

Language: English

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A vast panorama, meticulously researched. 797 pages with notes, bibliography and index. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy.

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EMPIRE EXPRESS; BUILDING THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

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Viking/Penguin Group, New York

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

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067080889X

ISBN 13

9780670808892

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Hardcover

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First edition.

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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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David Haward Bain spent fourteen years researching and writing this book. He is the author of three previous works of well-reviewed non-fiction. His essays have been published in Smithsonian and American Heritage, and he reviews regularly for The New York Times Book Review and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Bain teaches at Middlebury College, works with the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and lives in Orwell, Vermont.

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