Ten Mile Day

Ten Mile Day
Author: Mary Ann Fraser
Publisher: Square Fish
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250131243

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On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is a great adventure story in the history of the American West--the day Charles Crocker staked $10,000 on the crews' ability to lay a world record ten miles of track in a single, Ten Mile Day.


Ten Mile Day
Language: en
Pages: 81
Authors: Mary Ann Fraser
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-02 - Publisher: Square Fish

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On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's ca
Ten Mile Day and the Building of Transcontinental Railroad
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Mary Ann Fraser
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Everbind

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One amazing day the East and West were linked for train travel in an event in which hundreds of Chinese and Irish workers raced to lay ten miles of track on the
Ten Mile Day and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
Language: en
Pages: 89
Authors: Mary Ann Fraser
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers

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Chronicles the race to build the first railroad to cross the North American continent.
Ten Mile Day
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Mary Ann Fraser
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Turtleback Books

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An inclusive, multicultural portrait of a thrilling day in the completion of America's first transcontinental railroad. In her well-researched text, Fraser inco
Full Steam Ahead
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Rhoda Blumberg
Categories: Central Pacific Railroad
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated

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When the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 was signed, it allowed one railroad company to lay tracks east from California and another to lay tracks west from the Mis