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• ISBN: 067080889X
• ISBN: 9780670808892
• Physical Description: xiii, 797 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
• Publisher: New York : Viking, 1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 759-777) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I 1845-57: A Procession of Dreamers -- 1 "For All the Human Family" 3 -- 2 "Who Can Oppose Such a Work?" 16 -- 3 "I Must Walk Toward Oregon" 26 -- 4 "The Great Object for Which We Were Created" 37 -- 5 "An Uninhabited and Dreary Waste" 47 -- Part II 1860-61: Union, Disunion, Incorporation -- 6 "Raise the Money and I Will Build Your Road" 57 -- 7 "There Comes Crazy Judah" 67 -- 8 "The Marks Left by the Donner Party" 78 -- 9 "The Most Difficult Country Ever Conceived" 85 -- 10 "We Have Drawn the Elephant" 104 -- Part III 1863: Last of the Dreamers -- 11 "Speculation Is as Fatal to It as Secession" 122 -- 12 "I Have Had a Big Row and Fight" 131 -- Part IV 1864:Struggle for Momentum -- 13 "First Dictator of the Railroad World" 151 -- 14 "Dancing with a Whirlwind" 165 -- 15 "Trustees of the Bounty of Congress" 181 -- Part V 1865: The Losses Mount -- 16 "The Great Cloud Darkening the Land" 205 -- 17 "If We Can Save Our Scalps" 219 -- 18 "I Hardly Expect to Live to See It Completed" 234 -- Part VI 1866: Eyeing the Main Chance -- 19 "Vexation, Trouble, and Continual Hindrance" 252 -- 20 "The Napoleon of Railways" 261 -- 21 "We Swarmed the Mountains with Men" 281 -- 22 "Until They Are Severely Punished" 301 -- Part VII 1867: Hell on Wheels -- 23 "Nitroglycerine Tells" 315 -- 24 "Our Future Power and Influence" 330 -- 25 "They All Died in Their Boots" 360 -- 26 "There Are Only Five of Us" 391 -- Part VIII 1868: Going for Broke -- 27 "More Hungry Men in Congress" 435 -- 28 "Bring On Your Eight Thousand Men" 469 -- 29 "We Are in a Terrible Sweat" 506 -- 30 "A Man for Breakfast Every Morning" 550 -- Part IX 1869: Battleground and Meeting Ground -- 31 "A Resistless Power" 594 -- 32 "We Have Got Done Praying" 645 -- Part X 1872-73: Scandals, Scapegoats, and Dodgers -- Epilogue: "Trial of the Innocents" 675.

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