America’s Greatest Engineering Projects: The Construction History of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal, and the Hoover Dam

The First Transcontinental Railroad: A History of the Building of the Pacific Railroad 9781465947420

The First Transcontinental Railroad, originally called the Pacific Railroad, was a railroad built in the United States b

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The Union Pacific: The History of America’s Most Famous Railroad Company and Its Role in the Transcontinental Railroad

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *In

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El ferrocarril transcontinental (The Transcontinental Railroad) 9781538250570, 9781538250563, 9781538250556

A transcontinental railroad spanning the United States was once thought to be impossible. After a practical route was fo

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Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal 9780674239746

Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central Americ

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What Is the Panama Canal? 9780698171855

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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad 1503608298, 9781503608290

The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key mom

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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 0671225634, 0671244094, 9780743201377

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and b

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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad 9781503609259

This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce th

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The Oregon Trail: The Journey Across the Country From Lewis and Clark to the Transcontinental Railroad with 25 Projects [1 ed.] 9781619305731, 9781619305724

Westward ho! If you travel across certain parts of the United States, you can still see wagon wheel ruts where people cr

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El Canal de Panamá (The Panama Canal) 9781538250495, 2019014321, 9781538250464, 9781538250488, 9781538250471

The Panama Canal is only about 40 miles long, but this narrow channel connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It saves

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