First Transcontinental Railroad

by Lucy Shaninghale, Brendan Davis (Editor), Georgy Musky (Translator)

Overview

The First Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,907-mile (3,069 km) contiguous railroad line constructed in the United States between 1863 and 1869 west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156711031
Publisher:	Euprint press Limited
Publication date:	07/18/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	90 KB