Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads

"A fascinating story" of the railways that linked America from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Washington Post).

Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers in Missouri and California were separated by a vast landscape that dwarfed and isolated them, conquerable only by "the demonic power of the Iron Horse and its bands of iron track." Although the bu...