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Empire Express : Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
by Bain, David H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good++/Very Good++
- ISBN 10
- 067080889X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670808892
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1999. Book contains 797 pages with center section of b&w photographs. 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 frenzey 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.. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002042
- Title
- Empire Express : Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
- Author
- Bain, David H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good++
- ISBN 10
- 067080889X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670808892
- Publisher
- Viking Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- RAILROADS UNITED STATES HISTORY WEST U S STATE LOCAL TRANSPORTATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transportation; Railroads;
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