Nothing Like It In The World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by Stephen Ambrose American History books Railroad Train books
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This is a near fine (almost like new) hardcover with dust jacket. 2000 Simon & Schuster Publishing. This copy is still crisp and clean inside and out. The pages are crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Brown hardcover boards under jacket are also near fine with barely a hint of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is near fine with only very light shelf wear. Medium octavo book size or 6.5" x 9.5" with 431 pages including index. Illustrated maps front and back endpapers.
Nothing Like It In The World by Stephen Ambrose is subtitled The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869. It is an account of engineering, vision and courage. The book was the follow up by Ambrose's Undaunted Courage, the exploration of Lewis and Clark. It is the history of the investors, the politicians, the engineers, the surveyors, and the laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work. The Union had won the war but Lincoln would not survive to see his vision of the railroad. At its peak, the workforce, mostly Chinese on the Central Pacific and Irish on the Union Pacific, would approach 15,000 workers. The epic venture ended with the driving of a golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869.
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