Nothing Like It In The World

2000 · Book · Stephen E. Ambrose

“AUGUST 13, 1859, was a hot day in Council Bluffs, Iowa.”

"Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad - the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks."--BOOK JACKET. by Stephen E. Ambrose