RIVAL RAILS
The Race to Build America’s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad
Author: Borneman, Walter

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Random
Pages: 432
Price ( Hardback ): $28.00
Publication Date: September 28, 2010
ISBN ( Hardback ): 978-1-4000-6561-5
Category: Nonfiction
Classification: History

Workmanlike history of the post–Civil War effort to lace the western United States with steel rails.

That war, writes lawyer-historian Borneman (Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America, 2008, etc.), proved the efficacy of the railroads in moving ...

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