A book that's well written about actual history of the building of the railroad that connected the East Coast and the West Coast of the US: making us one Nation. But doomed the poor native Americans to hell.
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At first it seemed like a boring treatise on engineering and surveying but it quickly morphed into a fascinating journey into politics, states rights, real estate speculation, immigration, graft and to a small degree labor rights. Really a good book
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The story behind this enormous project is very interesting, lots of pictures to help you see the many challenges.
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Railroads today are all but forgotten. Great to see the history of the railroads as well as the interplay between the building of the railroads and the Civil War. Greatly surprised by Abraham Lincoln's contribution to the railroad effort.
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