Empire Express : Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

DAVID HAWARD BAIN, DAVID H. BAIN

ISBN 10: 067080889X / ISBN 13: 9780670808892

Published by Penguin USA November 1999, 1999

About this Item

First edition. Binding is tight and square. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. Trivial shelving wear. Overall in excellent condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Empire Express : Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
• Publisher: Penguin USA November 1999
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067080889X
• ISBN 13: 9780670808892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Transportation::Rail

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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.