Out of racial prejudice, Central Pacific leadership had initially ... The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad,” which was just published. These immigrants played a ...

The arrival of the railroad and, with it ... effectively halting transcontinental communication. Later, the party returned to Julesburg and burned it to the ground. General Grenville Dodge ...

In this excerpt from the book's fourth chapter, Twain describes his 1861 journey by mule-drawn express mail coach, in the days before the railroad, and compares it to a newspaper article from the ...

“If one argues that history is sort of a prism—that you look at the past in order to understand the present and the future—go no further than the transcontinental railroad,” says ...