Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

Bain, David Howard

ISBN 10: 067080889X / ISBN 13: 9780670808892

Published by Viking, NY, 1999

About this Item

First printing. Fine in a fine dustjacket, perfect. 797 pp with index, notes, bibliography, and great photos. Well written, fascinating history. (box 68).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
• Publisher: Viking, NY
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067080889X
• ISBN 13: 9780670808892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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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.