Bibliography

See M. Josephson, The Robber Barons (1962); P. Hastings, Railroads: An International History (1972); F. Hubbard, Encyclopedia of North American Railroading (1981); N. Faith, The World the Railways Made (1991); D. H. Bain, Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (1999); S. E. Ambrose, Nothing like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869 (2000).

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