A Work of Giants: Building the First Transcontinental RailroadMcGraw-Hill, 1962 - 367 sider |
Inni boken
Side 355
... Incidents of a Trip Through the Great Platte Valley , to the Rocky Mountains and Laramie Plains in the Fall of 1866 , with a synoptical statement of the various Pacific Railroads , and an account of the Great Union Pacific Railroad ...
... Incidents of a Trip Through the Great Platte Valley , to the Rocky Mountains and Laramie Plains in the Fall of 1866 , with a synoptical statement of the various Pacific Railroads , and an account of the Great Union Pacific Railroad ...
Innhold
A BEGINNING IN THE WEST | 1 |
OFF TO A LONG CLIMB | 20 |
THE UNION PACIFIC TAKES FORM | 42 |
Opphavsrett | |
6 andre deler vises ikke
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
A Work of Giants: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad Wesley S. Griswold Utdragsvisning - 1962 |
A Work of Giants: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad Wesley S. Griswold Utdragsvisning - 1962 |
A Work of Giants; Building the First Transcontinental Railroad Wesley S 1909-1996 Griswold Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2021 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
already began bonds bridge build builders California cars Casement Central Pacific Railroad Central Pacific's Charles Crocker Cheyenne chief engineer Chinese Cisco Collis Huntington committee Congress construction contract Cornelius Cole cost Council Bluffs Credit Mobilier Creek directors Dodge Donner Lake Durant's Dutch Flat east feet freight going grading Hopkins House Hoxie Humboldt Ibid Indians iron John Judah labor Laramie later Lincoln locomotive miles of track miles west Missouri months mountains move Nebraska Nevada night North Platte Oakes Ames Ogden Omaha Pacific Railroad Act party passenger President Promontory Summit Railroad Act rails Reed Letters Reno River road route S. B. Reed Sacramento Union Salt Lake City San Francisco Secretary Senate Sherman Sierra snow soon spike Stanford stockholders Strobridge Strobridge's telegram telegraph told tracklayers train transcontinental railroad Truckee tunnel Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific's Utah wagon Wasatch Washington winter wrote Wyoming York