Download Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863 - 1869 AudioBook Free
With this account of the unprecedented feat of engineering, eye-sight, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers an historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage.
Little or nothing ENJOY IT in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this venture comes to life.
The U.S. government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads -- against the other person in a competition for funding, stimulating speed over extreme caution. At its optimum, the work force approached the size of Civil Battle armies, with as many as 15,000 employees on each brand. The surveyors, the men who picked the course, living off buffalo, deer, and antelope.
In creating a railroad, there is only one decisive spot -- the end of the record. Nothing beats this great work had ever been seen in the world when the last spike, a fantastic one, was motivated in Promontory Maximum, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were signed up with.
Ambrose creates with power and eloquence about the fearless men -- the famous and the unheralded, common men doing the amazing -- who accomplished the breathtaking feat that made the continent into a nation.
