- New York Times reviewed, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Railroad construction workers, Railroads
"Nothing Like It in the World 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and epic.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Brand: Simon n Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780736656535
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- New York Times reviewed
- Union Pacific Railroad Company
- Railroad construction workers
- Railroads
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- Central Pacific Railroad Company
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- History
- Central Pacific Railroad Company -- History
- Union Pacific Railroad Company -- History
- Railroads -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Railroad construction workers -- United States -- History -- 19th century
“AUGUST 13, 1859, was a hot day in Council Bluffs, Iowa.”
Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history. **Source**: [Stephen E. Ambrose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_E._Ambrose) on Wikipedia.
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