Brown, Dee

Hear that lonesome whistle blow : railroads in the West / by Dee Brown. - 1st ed - New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ©1977. - vii, 311 p. : ill., ; 24 cm. - 656.2(09)(73) .

With hard-and supercover Maps on lining papers

Cont.: The iron horse comes to the waters of the mighty Mississippi -- With the wings of the wind -- War slows the march to the western sea -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill, while the owners take the plunder -- The era of the cowboy is born -- The great race -- First travelers on the transcontinental -- Railroaders west -- Exit the land grabbers, enter the stock manipulators -- Sitting Bull and the northern route -- Elegance on the western rails -- The immigrant -- Trampling the frontier -- The iron horse assumes a devil image.

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Railroads--History--West (U.S.)--Juvenile literature


West (U.S.)--History--Juvenile literature.

656.2(09)(73)