Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard M. Nothing like this great work had ever been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in Promontory Peak, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined.Īmbrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men - the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary - who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation. Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and biographer of U.S. In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot - the end of the track.
Nothing like it in the world by Ambrose, Stephen E. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, lived off buffalo, deer, and antelope. Nothing like it in the world Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. At its peak, the work force approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as 15,000 workers on each line. ambroses book, nothing like it in the word: the men who built the transcontinental railroad 1863-1869. government pitted two companies - the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads - against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. In his new book, 'Nothing Like It in The World: The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69', Stephen E.
In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life. Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. I bought a set of wonderfully heavy cast metal classical architecture bookends for my fianc and we both love them Theyre heavy enough to hold books in. Ambrose offers an historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage. In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E.
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