Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 Ambrose Stephen E.Paperback
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 Ambrose Stephen E.Paperback Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of…
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 Ambrose Stephen E.Paperback
Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. government pitted two companies--the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads--against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad--the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks.The U.S.
In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains.