This is a second-hand paperback book.

Condition: The cover has light wear and curling to the corners, and a very small indentation in the bottom right corner that also shows on the first 7 pages. There is light discolouring to the edges of the compressed pages. The rest of the book has no faults. The pages are clean and bright.

The dimensions: 158 x 233 mm Pages: 797 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Publication date: 2006 Print run: 15 14 13 12 10 09 08 07 06, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Union Pacific: Volume I, 1862-1893 By Maury Klein

The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as America’s first transcontinental railroad and is one of the strongest companies in the railroad industry today. The laying of the golden spike in Promontory, Utah, in 1869 marked not only the opening of the continent to settlement but also the transformation of the United States from an agricultural nation to an industrial one.

Maury Klein, America’s foremost railroad historian, re-creates the powerful personalities and dramatic events that led to the construction of this legendary railroad. Fully illustrated with over one hundred historic photographs and maps, Union Pacific details the feat of engineering and human strength that conquered the terrain of the desert and mountains and also the colourful wheelings and dealings that were waged in executive boardrooms in New York and Boston and in the chambers of Congress as dreamers and scoundrels, politicians and patriots forged a pioneering enterprise in transportation.

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