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ALSO BY STEPHEN E. AMBROSE

Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals

The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II

Americans at War

Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest

Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990

Eisenhower: Soldier and President

Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972

Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962

Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944

Eisenhower: The President

Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952

The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point

Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy, 1938-1992

Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment

Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff

Upton and the Army

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Nothing like it in the world: the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869 / Stephen E. Ambrose.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Railroads—United States—History—19th century. 2. Central Pacific Railroad Company—History. 3. Union Pacific Railroad Company—History. 4. Railroad construction workers—United States—History—19th century. I. Title.

TF23 .A48 2000

385′.0973—dc2l  00-041005

ISBN 0-684-84609-8
eISBN: 978-0-743-21083-6

All photos are courtesy of the Union Pacific Museum Collection. A leatherbound signed first edition of this book has been published by Easton Press.