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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bailey, Budd, 1955- author.     Subjects     Pacific railroads -- Juvenile literature.     United States -- Territorial expansion -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bailey, Budd, 1955- author.       by title:      The Transcontinental...         MARC Display

The Transcontinental Railroad / Budd Bailey. by Bailey, Budd, 1955- author. New York : Cavendish Square Publishing, 2018. Subjects Pacific railroads -- Juvenile literature.   United States -- Territorial expansion -- Juvenile literature. ISBN:  9781502626424 (library bound) 150262642X (library bound) Series:  Primary sources of westward expansion Description:  64 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm. Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  People today refer to the Midwestern and prairie states as flyover country. During the Civil War, crossing those areas was the biggest obstacle in uniting the East and West Coasts of our divided nation. An act of Congress in 1862 authorized the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies to build a railroad that would link the coasts. Seven years later, on May 10, 1869, an overwhelmingly immigrant labor force completed the task when a rail line was join in Promontory, Utah. The states had become united at last.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Waipahu Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 385.0978 Ba Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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