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THE IRON TRAIL TO THE GOLDEN SPIKE
By John J. Stewart
New York: Meadow Lark Press, Inc., 1994.
First edition, first printing. SIGNED by the author to the half-title page. Illustrated with a generous bounty photographs, maps and figures. This action-packed history of the building of the first transcontinental railroad completed at Promotory Summit, Utah in 1869, is spiced with accounts of an assortment of people involved, including con men, statesmen, scoundrels, soldiers, Civil War veterans, Chinese, Mormon pioneers, speculators, villains, and more. Very nearly fine in auburn linen with gilt embossed titles and an illustration of a smoke-puffing train to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles and rules to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band, map illustrated end-papers; in a slightly rubbed very good dust jacket with rubbed crimps to the upper and lower spine edges, and slight fading to the spine panel. Octavo; 298 pages; index. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED BOOKS THANKS! |