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100 1 $aAmbrose, Stephen E.
245 10 $aNothing like it in the world :$bthe men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869 /$cStephen E. Ambrose.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$cc2000.
300 $a431 p., [32] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 407-411) and index.
505 00 $gch. 1.$tPicking the route 1830-1860 --$gch. 2.$tGetting to California 1848-1859 --$gch. 3.$tBirth of the Central Pacific 1860-1862 --$gch. 4.$tBirth of the Union Pacific 1862-1864 --$gch. 5.$tJudah and the elephant 1862-1864 --$gch. 6.$tLaying out the Union Pacific line 1864-1865 --$gch. 7.$tCentral Pacific attacks the Sierra Nevada 1865 --$gch. 8.$tUnion Pacific across Nebraska 1866 --$gch. 9.$tCentral Pacific assaults the Sierra 1866 --$gch. 10.$tUnion Pacific to the Rocky Mountains 1867 --$gch. 11.$tCentral Pacific penetrates the summit 1867 --$gch. 12.$tUnion Pacific across Wyoming 1868 --$gch. 13.$tBrigham Young and the Mormons make the grade 1868 --$gch. 14.$tCentral Pacific goes through Nevada 1868 --$gch. 15.$tRailroads race into Utah January 1-April 10, 1869 --$gch. 16.$tTo the summit April 11-May 7, 1869 --$tDone May 8-10, 1869.
520 $aThe account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad-the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. The U.S. government pitted two companies, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads, against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. At its peak, the work force approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as 15,000 workers on each line. Nothing like this great work had ever been seen in the world when the golden spike was driven in Promontory Peak, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined. This is the story of the brave men, the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation.
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