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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. 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

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. 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. government pitted two companies--the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads--against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. 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. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes vibrantly to life.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 11/06/2001
ISBN: 9780743203173
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.22w x 1.09d

Review Citations: New York Times 11/25/2001 pg. 32
New York Times 12/02/2001 pg. 89

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 54436 / Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
Reading Level: 8.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 28
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