The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 By Stephen E. Ambrose Simon & Schuster; 431 pages; $28 In Hollywood, it is common to see large crowds gather at premieres hoping to spot movie ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Hilton Obenzinger discusses why certain immigrants did not want a job building the transcontinental railroad and then further discusses why the Union ...
Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a backlash that led to... The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is widely ...
A new agreement between two railroad giants, Union Pacific Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation, will create America’s first transcontinental railroad, to be called the Union Pacific ...
Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight railroad.
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