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Paperback The Golden Spike: How a Photograph Celebrated the Transcontinental Railroad Book

ISBN: 0756549973

ISBN13: 9780756549978

The Golden Spike: How a Photograph Celebrated the Transcontinental Railroad

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In the mid-1860s, as the Union Pacific Railroad headed westward from Nebraska, another company, the Central Pacific, pushed eastward from California. Their goal was to meet somewhere in between, forming a single railway line that would bridge the continent. That historic meeting took place in May 1869 in northern Utah, and photographer Andrew J. Russell was there to document the historic event. His work resulted in one of the most important photos...

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