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The Working Life - A Worker on the Transcontinental Railroad (The Working Life)
The Working Life A Worker on the Transcontinental Railroad - The Working Life Author:James Barter The men who built the Transcontinental Railroad between 1863 and 1869 labored 12 hour days building bridges, blasting tunnels, and laying rail beds in the midst of freezing winters and hot summers while fighting Indians and dodging dynamite explosions. This book honors the tens of thousands of mostly immigrants by describing their day-to-day liv... more »es while constructing the greatest railroad of all time.« less