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Riding the Transcontinental Rails

Riding the Transcontinental Rails Overland Travel on the Pacific Railroad, 1865-1881

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Publisher's Synopsis

In 1869 an journalist describes the "seven weeks of steady journeying" from the East Coast to the West. A lady of the same profession blames the toughness of steaks served in the dining car on their being taken from the "acrobatic muscles" of the local antelope. A businessman writes to his mother of his frequently snowbound passage from Boston to S

Book information

ISBN: 9781411599932
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Imprint: Polyglot Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 917.8042
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Weight: 544g
Height: 203mm
Width: 146mm
Spine width: 25mm