Author: David Shepherd
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486782530
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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Travel back to the 1860s to join a family of Irish immigrants on their westward voyage to participate in the dramatic track-laying contest between the Union and Central Pacific Railroads. 35 illustrations.
Author: Robert Marshall Utley
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 0756549914
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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"Chronicles the historic meeting of two railroad lines in 1869 that linked the U.S. transcontinental railroad and Andrew J. Russell's famous photograph of the event"--
Author: Rose Houk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780911408867
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Author: Stephen Cosgrove
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
ISBN: 1410811417
Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad is about to be celebrated by those people whose lives have been, or will be, changed forever by this incredible feat.
Author: David E. Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Robert R. Dowty
Publisher: Western National Parks Association
ISBN: 9781877856433
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Dowty, master mechanic for the locomotives at Golden Spike National Historic Site, recounts the painstaking, five-year process of recreating the steam locomotives that met at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869 for the ceremony marking completion of America's first transcontinental railroad. Dozens of duotone photos document the project.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golden Spike National Historic Site (Utah)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Author: J. M. Klein
Publisher:
ISBN: 172537532X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Author: Robert Lee Murphy
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781432853082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Will Braddock works for the Union Pacific Railroad as it races west to join the Central Pacific. Paddy O'Hannigan is out to kill Will, Homer Garcon, and Will's uncle, all of whom he blames for his own troubles. Desperate for money, Paddy sees his chance when he learns that the president of the Central Pacific Railroad is bringing a golden spike to mark the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Can Will and his friends stop him in time?
