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Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC 9781493037759 Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad
Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC 9781493037759 Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad

Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad

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  • Vendor: Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC
  • Product Type: Book
  • Barcode: 9781493037759
  • Condition: New
  • Format: BOOK
  • Binding: paperback
  • Author: Chris Enss
  • Publisher: TwoDot
  • Published: December 31, 2020
  • ISBN 13: 9781493037759
  • SKU: M8609
DESCRIPTION
When the last spike was hammered into the steel track of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, Western Union lines sounded the glorious news of the railroad’s completion from New York to San Francisco. For more than five years an estimated four thousand men mostly Irish working west from Omaha and Chinese working east from Sacramento, moved like a vast assembly line toward the end of the track. Editorials in newspapers and magazines praised the accomplishment and some boasted that the work that “was begun, carried on, and completed solely by men.” The August edition of Godey’s Lady’s Book even reported “No woman had laid a rail and no woman had made a survey.”

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