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English
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Profiles the men who built the transcontinental railroad, the investors who risked their businesses to fund it, the politicians who understood its importance, the Irish and Chinese immigrants who worked on it, and the other laborers who did the dangerous work of laying the track.
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English
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Twenty-two years have passed since Tim Colter and his family were ambushed on the Oregon Trail, forcing the young boy to find an unlikely ally in one-eyed mountain man Jed Reno. Now a widowed deputy U.S. marshal and Civil War veteran, Colter is finally ready to remarry and settle down--until a dangerous new assignment becomes a life-or-death struggle for the soul of a town and the heart of its people . . . The Union Pacific Railroad is laying down...
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Ribbons west volume 1
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English
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A tale of the western frontier begins with the hope of a transcontinental railroad.
5) Iron rails, iron men, and the race to link the nation: the story of the transcontinental railroad
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Experience the race to link the United States by rail. Meet the men behind this incredible feat in a riveting story about the building of the transcontinental railroad, brought to life with archival photos.
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Entertainment One
Pub. Date
2014
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2013 television broadcasts.
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English
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A former Confederate soldier still haunted by his past, Cullen Bohannon made a home in Hell on Wheels hunting down the men responsible for killing his family. Following the Indian attack that destroyed the railroad settlement, Cullen spends a long winter reshaping his lust for revenge into a burning ambition, to take control of the Union Pacific and drive it across the country.
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Entertainment One Film US
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of Union soldiers, who killed his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this connected the east with the still wild west.
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Noonday Press
Pub. Date
c1991
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English
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Annals of the Former World is the result of a 20-year journey. During that time, John McPhee, author of 25 books and noted writer for The New Yorker, crisscrossed the United States, roughly following the 40th parallel. The geological insights and wonderful descriptions McPhee packed into his accounts of these trips earned his remarkable book a Pulitzer Prize. The third part, Rising From the Plains, takes McPhee to the high country of Utah along the...
12) Breaking trail
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Tom Patterson westerns volume 3
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Avalon Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2009
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Large Print ed.
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English
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From one of the most beloved Western authors comes an epic historical tale of adventure and romance in the great wilderness.
Against the epic backdrop of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across plains and deserts and through the mountains to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah comes a sprawling, historical tale. Warren Neale is a brilliant civil engineer who is constantly confronted with construction problems. He is sided by Larry...
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