Ten Mile Day

ISBN: 9780805047035

出版社: Henry Holt & Co

出版年: 1996-3

页数: 40

定价: $ 11.29

装帧: Pap

内容简介

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 the story of that great American adventure--and 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.