Join award-winning author William D. Kalt III for a thrilling ride through the West during the Age of Steam Locomotives. More than 400 never-before-published photographs fill this remarkable volume. First-hand accounts of men and women who worked for Southern Pacific Railroad enliven incidents and anecdotes, tragedy and inspiration. Southern Pacific constructed the nation's second transcontinental line across her southwestern deserts in the early 1880s. "Rails, " railroad workers, built towns like Tucson across the West and developed a unique rail culture. Travel back to this unique epoch in our country's history, now fifty years behind us. As much a story America's western frontier as it is the railroad!Purchase this uniquely documented book now!
