Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow
By (author): "George Guidall, Dee Brown"
Publish Date:
April 1st 1977
ISBN1556902190
ISBN139781556902192
AsinHear That Lonesome Whistle Blow
Original titleHear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads
In February 1854 the first railroad reached the Missippi; by the end of the nineteenth century five major transcontinental railroads linked the Atlantic and the Pacific. This is the story of that undertaking, complete with heroes and villians, laborers, intrepid engineers, avaricious bankers, stock manipulators, corrupt politicians, the displacement of an entire race of people, and millions of buffalo.