Download Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 AudioBook Free
In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers an historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage.
Nothing ENJOY IT in the World is the storyline of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life.
The U.S. government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads -- against the other person in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. At its peak, the task force approached how big is Civil War armies, with as much as 15,000 staff on each line. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, living off buffalo, deer, and antelope.
In creating a railroad, there is merely one decisive spot -- the end of the track. Nothing like this great work had have you been seen in the globe when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in Promontory Peak, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined.
Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men -- the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation.
