Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead

Author: Rhoda Blumberg

Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 9780590372046

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When the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 was signed, it allowed one railroad company to lay tracks east from California and another to lay tracks west from the Mississippi. When the transcontinental link was completed on May 10, 1869, it changed America forever. This is a description of every aspect of the building of the transcontinental railroad.


Ghosts of Gold Mountain

Ghosts of Gold Mountain

Author: Gordon H. Chang

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1328618579

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A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.