Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow Railroads in the West by Dee Brown First Edition 1977 Holt Rinehart Winston Publishing Old West history
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This is a very good hardcover with a good dust jacket. First Edition 1971 Holt Rinehart Winston Publishing. This copy is still crisp and clean inside. The inside pages are crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Black cloth hardcover boards under jacket are also very good with only hints of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is good, clean and still mostly shiny but showing shelf wear including small tearing top and bottom edges. Medium octavo book size or 6.5" x 9.5" with 311 pages including index. Illustrated maps front and back endpapers.
Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow Railroads in the West by Dee Brown is the story of technological ingenuity, idealism, and greed. The heroes and villains were Irish laborers, intrepid engineers, bankers, and corrupt politicians. In Feb. 1854, the first railroad from the East reached the Mississippi. By the end of the 19th century five major transcontinental railroads linked the East Coast with the Pacific Ocean. This book is the dramatic narrative of the development of the Railroads in the Old West.
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