Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

Bain, David Haward

ISBN 10: 067080889X / ISBN 13: 9780670808892

Published by Viking, New York, 1999

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original cloth backed boards hardcover, illustrated, 797 pages, slight spotting to page edges otherwise near fine in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B219.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
• Publisher: Viking, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067080889X
• ISBN 13: 9780670808892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Transport/Railways

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.