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Language: en
Pages: 262
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-09-15 - Publisher: Voyageur Press
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Pages: 1432
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-01 - Publisher: Penguin
After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most transformative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's
Language: en
Pages: 450
Pages: 450
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-25 - Publisher: PublicAffairs
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the
Language: en
Pages: 275
Pages: 275
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Westholme Pub Llc
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