Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

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“Very good condition, Complete, Ex library with stamps stickers,”
Country of Origin
United States
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No
Ex Libris
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Book Series
Historical
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
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No
Edition
First Edition
Vintage
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Type
Novel
Era
2000s
Personalized
Yes
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Dust Jacket, Ex-Library, Illustrated, complete
ISBN
9780684846095

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0684846098
ISBN-13
9780684846095
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102862033

Product Key Features

Book Title
Nothing like It in the World : the Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Railroads / History, Civil / Transportation, United States / General, Industries / Transportation
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History
Author
Stephen E. Ambrose
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
25.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Trade
LCCN
00-041005
Reviews
Time, naming Nothing Like It in the World as the #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year This magnificent tale of high finance, low finagling, and workers hacking through 2,000 miles is magnificently told., Henry Kisor The New York Times Book Review Richly readable...[Stephen Ambrose] bears the reader on shoulders of wonder and excitement., Conn Nugent New York Post Climb aboard...this lively tale, a colorful, edifying story of U.S. history....Ambrose is the bard of American accomplishment., Bob Minzesheimer USA Today Historian Stephen Ambrose has done it again....Ambrose should be read as much for his muscular prose and talent to get at the heart of the matter as for his research.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
385.0973
Table Of Content
ContentsIntroductionONE Picking the Route 1830­1860TWO Getting to California 1848­1859THREE The Birth of the Central Pacific 1860­1862FOUR The Birth of the Union Pacific 1862­1864FIVE Judah and the Elephant 1862­1864SIX Laying Out the Union Pacific Line 1864­1865SEVEN The Central Pacific Attacks the Sierra Nevada 1865EIGHT The Union Pacific Across Nebraska 1866NINE The Central Pacific Assaults the Sierra 1866TEN The Union Pacific to the Rocky Mountains 1867ELEVEN The Central Pacific Penetrates the Summit 1867TWELVE The Union Pacific Across Wyoming 1868THIRTEEN Brigham Young and the MormonsMake the Grade 1868FOURTEEN The Central Pacific Goes Through Nevada 1868FIFTEEN The Railroads Race into Utah January 1­April 10, 1869SIXTEEN To the Summit April 11­May 7, 1869SEVENTEEN Done May 8­10, 1869EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndexMapsFrom Chicago to OmahaNebraskaWyomingNevadaUtahCalifornia
Synopsis
In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimedUndaunted Courage,which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark.Nothing Like It in the Worldis 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.The Union had won the Civil War and slavery had been abolished, but Abraham Lincoln, who was an early and constant champion of railroads, would not live to see the great achievement. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes to life.The U.S. government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads -- against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomo-tives, 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. This was the last great building project to be done mostly by hand: excavating dirt, cutting through ridges, filling gorges, blasting tunnels through mountains.At its peak, the workforce -- primarily Chinese on the Central Pacific, Irish on the Union Pacific -- approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as fifteen thousand workers on each line. The Union Pacific was led by Thomas "Doc" Durant, Oakes Ames, and Oliver Ames, with Grenville Dodge -- America's greatest railroad builder -- as chief engineer. The Central Pacific was led by California's "Big Four": Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, were latter-day Lewis and Clark types who led the way through the wilderness, living off buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope.In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot -- the end of the track. Nothing like this great work had been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined.Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men -- the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation., From the author of the bestselling "D-Day, Undaunted Courage, Citizen Soldiers, The Victors" and "Comrades" comes an epic true story of the transcontinental railroad, a brilliant feat of enterprise and engineering.
LC Classification Number
TF23.A48 2000

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