Empire Express
Subtitle: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: August 8, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9780140084993
First sentence: Nine weeks out of New York and bound for Macao, the leaky and overburdened merchant barque Oscar struggled to round the Cape of Good Hope and was becalmed.