Category: Trains > Railroaded: The Transcontinentals & the Making of Modern America

The transcontinentals were pivotal actors in the making of modern America, but the triumphal myths of the golden spike, Robber Barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Richard White is one of those rare historians who tells the story of the western transcontinentals as it has never been told before, with insights that speak as much to our own time as to the nineteenth-century era he explores. Soft Cover.

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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals & the Making of Modern America from WW Norton