### From Publishers Weekly Railroads might seem outmoded today, but they were originally dynamic, cutthroat enterprises, according to this byzantine business history of track laying in the American West. Independent historian Borneman (Polk) chronicles the postβCivil War scramble to build a web of
Rival Rails The Race to Build America's
β Scribed by Borneman, Walter R
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780679603924
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