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Books on the first Transcontinental Rail road
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    Posted: 19-Aug-2014 at 19:40
Looking for books, that look into how the building of the first Transcontinental Rail road affected America. I am particularly interested on the effects it had on the western frontier.

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''Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad''

Stephen Ambrose


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/further-reading/tcrr-further-reading/


http://cprr.org/Museum/Recent_Books.html


http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/riseind/railroad/trans.html


''Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad''

Walter R. Borneman


''Railroads and the American People: Railroads Past and Present''

H. Roger Grant
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