Ten Mile Day : And the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
(2016)
By:
Fraser, Mary Ann
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Square Fish, 2016
Made available through hoopla
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781250131249 MWT16169028, 1250131243 16169028
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is a great adventure story in the history of the American West-the day Charles Crocker staked $10,000 on the crews' ability to lay a world record ten miles of track in a single, Ten Mile Day
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