Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863- 1869
Written by: Stephen E. Ambrose
Grades: 7-12
This book tells the story of how the Government put two companies against each other to race across the United States. The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads. It has black and white photographs to illustrate what the author is describing. It shows the huge efforts the people who built the railroad went through to get the track laid. Men were hurt and some died to lay the track. The Chinese, Irish, Black, and Confederate Soldiers working together. They had to go across rivers and through mountains. The surveyors finding a path through mostly wilderness to meet up in Promontory Summit, Utah. The last spike to be driven would be the golden spike and would connect the Eastern and Western United States.
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