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" ... looks at the challenges created by the building and running of the railroads in North America and the sweeping changes their construction brought. An examination of primary and secondary source materials helps readers critically analyze who built the railroads and why, and how they changed the movement of people and products. Topics include settlement--and nation-building, as well as who gained through railroad building--and who lost"--Back...
4) Iron rails, iron men, and the race to link the nation: the story of the transcontinental railroad
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Chronicles the six-year project of building the transcontinental railroad between America's East and West Coasts. Discusses the lives of the visionaries that ran the project, like Theodore Judah and James Strobridge, and how they created two railroad companies to make it happen--the Central Pacific, which built towards the east, and the Union Pacific, which built towards the west.