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Building the Pacific railway; the construction-story of America's first iron thoroughfare between the Missouri River and California, from the inception of the great idea to the day, May 10, 1869, when the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific joined tracks at Promotory Point, Utah, to form the nation's transcontinental (1919)

Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand), 1870-1952 · Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company · leaf 217

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THE iooo-MILE TREE IN WEBER CANYON “One Thousand Miles from Omaha,” 1869 by Courtesy Union Pacific System ON THE LAST LEG The Union Pacific approaching Promontory Summit

Union Pacific Railroad · Central Pacific Railroad Company

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