Frank Carlson Library

"A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now"-- "The long-lost tale of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history. In 1864, as the Civil War still raged, throngs of Chinese migrants began to converge on the...

From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders...

Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a "rail-road" that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking-an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. Steam City...

When a socialite from the nation's capital embarks on a journey to the Wild West, her life is changed forever. A setting populated by hundreds of laborers, outlaws, and Indians is hardly the place for a wealthy general's daughter. But Josephine Cain is determined to visit her father, who supervises the day-to-day work involved in the grandest ambition of post-Civil War America: the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. Life with the railroad

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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...

After the Louisiana Purchase, the land size of the United States doubled! Goods that were being produced in one part of the country need to get to the other part the soonest possible time. By the 1830s, the steam engine was introduced and it cemented the importance of railroads. Read about the first railroads in the US and the Transcontinental Railroad that linked the east to the west.

In this book, you will learn about the history of railroads in America and how it has transformed the nation over the years. Understand the reason why railroads became a "big hit" after the Civil War. How did the use of railroads impact businesses in the USA? What were the advantages and disadvantages of railroads? Start your analysis today!

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! There is more to the history of the railroads than connecting the eastern United States to the western ones. Most of the workers were of Chinese descent and were treated unfairly. Learn how workers protested for better treatment. Have you ever considered what's missing from history books? In Left Out of History, explore the...

Through the years, railroads have had a profound effect on American life and culture. Find out how the locomotive was developed, how the train became big industry, how it helped America expand westward, what part the railroad played in the Civil War, and how electric trains and trolleys developed from the railroad.

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.