The golden spike
Subtitle: the story of America's first transcontinental railroad
By: by Harold Littledale ; illustrated by Tony Kokinos.
Contributors: Kokinos, Tony, ill.
Publisher: Parents' Magazine Press
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Central Pacific Railroad Company.; Union Pacific Railroad Company.; Central Pacific Railroad Company -- Juvenile literature.; Union Pacific Railroad Company -- Juvenile literature.; Railroads -- History.; Railroads -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Chronicles the six-year endeavor to span the United States by railroad, describing the race between the Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies to reach their meeting place and their struggles against weather, Indians, politics, and impassable terrain.