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Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

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Author David Bain

Format Hardcover

Publisher Viking Adult

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"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 frenzy 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Release Date: 1999-10-25
Publisher: Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670808892

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Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

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