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The Great American Railroad War
How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took on the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad
By Drabelle, Dennis
- ISBN
- 9780312667597
- Publisher
- St. Martin's
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Reviewed on July 1, 2012 | Social Sciences
Drabelle (contributing editor, Washington Post Book World; Mile-High Fever) examines the role of literature in battling the Central Pacific Railroad monopoly. He recounts the financing of the transcontinental railroad with U.S. government bonds and how the railroad's owners such as Leland Stanford and Collis Huntington enriched themselves in various quasi-legal ways. Though the railroad worked to make itself untouchable...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
