Across America on an emigrant train / by Jim Murphy ; illustrated with photographs and prints.
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.
Record details
- ISBN: 0395633907
- ISBN: 9780395633908
- ISBN: 0756991447
- Physical Description: 150 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Clarion Books, [1993]
- Copyright: ©1993
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-144) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Journey begins -- All aboard! -- Aboard the emigrant train -- Into the Wild West -- Across the high Sierras -- In the good country -- Final word.
- Target Audience Note:
- 1180L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.8 3 8452.
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- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 > Travel > United States > Juvenile literature.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 > Juvenile literature.
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Authors, Scottish > 19th century > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Railroads > History > Juvenile literature.
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