In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes vibrantly to life. Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. government pitted two companies-the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads-against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869.
One guy got tired after a while and couldn’t walk anymore, so. Two sets of footprints first, but then only one. Nothing Like It in the World is generously documented with endnotes, a bibliography, and an index. Ambrose See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.19 Paperback 4.19 - 18.25 Audio CD - Audio Cassette - Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good - Good 4. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad-the investors who risked their businesses and money the enlightened politicians who understood its importance the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. In the dentist’s office, there’s a poster: footprints in the sand. ISBN13: 9780684846095 Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869 by Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job.
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