Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad

by Chris Enss

Book Overview

**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Winner for Western Non-Fiction**

When the last spike was hammered into the steel track of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, Western Union lines sounded the glorious news of the railroad's completion from New York to San Francisco. For more than five years an estimated four thousand men mostly Irish working west from Omaha and Chinese working east from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493037757
• ISBN13: 9781493037759
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Two Dot Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"