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Railroads past and presentGrant, H. Roger
Summary: Looks at the impact and importance of railroads and railroad travel on cities and towns throughout the United States, from 1830 through 1930.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0973 GRAFloca, Brian.
Summary: Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 385.0973 FLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Caldecott Floca 2013Copies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FLOAmbrose, Stephen E.
Summary: The account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad-the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 385 AMBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Transport AmbroseHiltzik, Michael A.
Summary: "From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0973 HILCooper, Anderson
Summary: Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 COOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 COOCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VANDERBILT COOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US CooperWhite, Richard
Summary: A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2011