Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad by Richard V. Francaviglia

Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad

Richard V. Francaviglia

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction historical history medium-paced
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Francaviglia looks anew at the geographical-historical context of the driving of the golden spike in May 1869. He gazes outward from the site of the transcontinental railroad's completion--the summit of a remote mountain range that extends south i...

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