num_pages: 40
description: On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is a great adventure story in the history of the American West--the day Charles Crocker staked $10,000 on the crews' ability to lay a world record ten miles of track in a single, Ten Mile Day.
language: English
title: Ten Mile Day: And the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
titlecomplete: Ten Mile Day: And the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
genres: Trains, History, School, American History, Picture Books, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Square Fish