High Road to Promontory Building the Central Pacific Across the High Sierra w/DJ

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High Road to Promontory Building the Central Pacific Across the High Sierra

By George Kraus

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket

317 Pages

This is the dramatic, fascinating story of the Central Pacific's epic struggle to lay rails across the fearsome wall of the Sierra Nevada and the arid caches of the desert in the face of nearly every natural and man-made obstacle that could be iced-and conquered. "It can't be done," said the skeptics of a century ago, but with the exercise of vision, money and engineering muscle, determined railroad men tied the Atlantic to the Pacific with ands of steel that opened the West and forever hanged its history.

Table of Contents

Foreword7

An Isolated Land13

Judah Surveys the Sierra and the

Central Pacific is Organized: 186132

Pacific Railroad Bill: 186240

Harnessing the Elephant: 186250

The Muscle, the Gold, and the -Iron: 186358

Abraham's Faith: 186480

Construction Moves into High Gear: 1865100

Sailing Ships, Prosperity, and

Pacific Railroad Punch: 1866124

The CP Digs In: Winter, 1866-67144

Rails to the Summit: 1867158

An Interlude of Expansion: 1867168

Forty Feet of Snow: Winter, 1867-68182

Heaven Before and Hell Behind: 1868190

Dash to Promontory: 1869228

A Golden Spike and

A Silver-Headed Hammer: May 10, 1869262

Epilogue289

Appendices292

Index313

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