Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

Description: From inside the dustcover: "Told from the points of view of its participants Empire Express uniquely American cast includes: self made entrepreneurs such as the Union Pacific's Thomas Duran or the Central Pacific's Collis Huntington, who built railroad empires across the West while spinning webs of influence all over Washington D.C. engineers such as Theodore Judah, who discovered a route across the 7.000 -foot-high California Sierra in the footsteps of the tragic Donner Party, and Grenville Dodge, who forged a path across the Rockies while being pursued by an Indian war party. tribal leaders such as Spotted Tail and Red Cloud, who alternated between conciliation and defiance as the soldiers and locomotives heralded the onrush of farmers, ranchers, prospectors and townsfolk." Reviews from back of Empire Express: "Empire Express is one of those books that anyone with any interest in railroad history or the American West must acquire and keep close at hand. It is gargantuan, truly towering, and thanks to David Haward Bain's lengthy and painstaking research it is as complete as the subject can ever be. Bain uses the voices of the transcontinental railroad builders to tell much of this epical tale. Furthermore, to enliven his narrative he brings in contemporary events relative to this great American Endeavor." -- Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow

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