Worker on the Transcontinental Railroad

The men who built the transcontinental railroad between 1863 and 1869 labored twelve-hour days building bridges, blasting tunnels, and laying rail beds in the midst of freezing winters and hot summers while fighting Indians and dodging dynamite explosions. This book honors the tens of thousands of mostly immigrants by describing their day-to-day lives while constructing the greatest railroad of all time.Barter, James E. is the author of 'Worker on the Transcontinental Railroad', published 2002 under ISBN 9781590182475 and ISBN 1590182472.