From the river to the sea : the untold story of the railroad war that made the West / John Sedgwick.
Material type: SoundPublisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2021]Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 9 audio discs (approximately 630 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- spoken word
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- 9781797125350
- 1797125354
- 9781797125367
- 1797125362
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Compact discs.
Read by John Bedford Lloyd.
It is remarkable now to imagine, but during the 1870s, the American West, for all its cloud-topped peaks and endless coastline, might have been barren tundra as far as most Americans knew. In 1869, the first transcontinental railroad had made history by linking East and West, but, relying heavily on federal grants, it left an opening for two brash new railroad men, the Civil War hero behind the Rio Grande and the corporate chieftain of the Santa Fe, to build the first transcontinental to make money by creating a railroad empire across the Southwest to the sea.