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Nothing Like it in the World, The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869
by Stephen Ambrose
- HISTORY
- 2000
- PAPER
- 416 PAGES
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Picking up where the award-winning story of Lewis and Clark (Undaunted Courage) left off, Ambrose tells how America, in the midst of the Civil War, built the Transcontinental Railroad. It took presidents, corporate giants, a work force roughly the size of the Civil War armies, and even Brigham Young to mount the most ambitious project of its age. Ambrose uses his considerable skill as a writer and his experience as a biographer to capture the energy, spirit and verve required to build the railroad.
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