Across America on an emigrant train /
by Jim Murphy; illustrated with photographs and prints.
- New York : Clarion Books, c1993.
- 150 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliography (p. 140-4) and index.
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Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.
7.5 4-7
0395633907 $20.80
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