Reading List

The Last Spikes Everlasting Steam Last Spike Site Reading List Essay	Golden Spike National Historic Site Suggested Reading
A Pictorial History of the Pacific Railroad    Raymond Cushing & Jeffrey Moreau, Pentrex, Pasadena, CA 1994. Building the Pacific Railway - Edward L. Sabin    J. B. Lippencott Company, Philadelphia, PA. 1919. C.P.R.R. The Central Pacific Railroad - Charles Nordoff    Outbooks, Golden, CO 1976 (originally written 1892). Empire Express; Building the First Transcontinental Railroad - David    Haward Bain, Penguin Putnam, New York, NY. 1999. Exploring the American West, 1803-1879 - National Park Service    Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C. 1982. First Transcontinental Railroad - John D. Galloway    Simmons-Boardman, New York, NY. 1950. A Footnote to History, The US Army at Promontory, UT, May 10, 1869 -    Paul L. Hedren, Utah Historical Quarterly, No. 49 (Fall, 1981), pp. 363-    373. Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad - Rhoda    Blumberg, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. 1996. Golden Spike - Robert M. Utley and Francis A. Ketterson, Jr.    U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 1969. Golden Spike National Historic Site - Rose Houk    Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Tucson, AZ 1990. Golden Spike, The - David E. Miller, editor    University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT. 1973. A Great and Shining Road - John Hoyt Williams    Times Books, Random House, New York, NY 1988. History of the Union Pacific Railway - Henry K. White    University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 1895. Iron Horses to Promontory - Gerald M. Best    Pub. Golden West Books, San Marino, CA. 1980. Last Spike is Driven, The - Arrington at al    Utah Historical Quarterly, No. 37 (Winter, 1969). Making Tracks - Mayer and Vose    Praeger Publishers, New York, NY. 1975. Nothing Like It In The World- The Men Who Built The Transcontinental    Railroad 1863-1869 - Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, New York,    NY. 2000. Panama Route, 1848-1869, The - John H. Kembel    DaCapo Press, New York, NY. 1972. Promontory's Locomotives - Gerald M. Best    Golden West Books, San Marino, CA. 1980. Rails East to Promontory: The Utah Stations - Raymond and Fike    Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, UT. 1981. Rails From the West: a Biography of Theodore D. Judah - Helen Hinkley    Pub. Golden West Books, San Marino, CA. Railroaders, The - Keith Wheeler    Time-Life Books, New York, NY. 1973. Rebirth Of The Jupiter And The 119 - Robert R. Dowty    Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Tucson, AZ 1994. Story of the Western Railroads - Robert E. Reigel    University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 1964. Ten Mile Day; And The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad - Mary    Ann Fraser Henry Holt and Company, New York, NY 1993. Trans-continental Excursion: Boston to San Francisco - Boston Board of    Trade, Hughes', Williamsport, PA 1870. Transcontinental Railroad Legislation, 1835-1862 - Thomar E. Dufwa    Arno Press, New York 1981. Union Pacific Country - by Robert G. Athearn    Pub. Rand McNally & Company, 1971 - reprinted by University of    Nebraska Press, 1985. Westward By Rail - William Fraser Rae    Indian Head Books, Barnes & Noble, Inc., New York, NY. 1993 (written    1869). Westward to the Pacific - Ray A. Billington    Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Historical Association, St. Louis,    MO. 1979. Westward to Promontory - Barry B. Combs    American West Publishing, Palo Alto, CA. 1969. A Work of Giants - Wesley S. Griswold    McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY 1962. Other Available Reading Seletions: The Iron Trail to the Golden Spike- John J. Stewart    Meadow Lark Press, Inc., New York 1994. Iron Horses Across America: The first Transcontinental Railroad    Discovery Enterprises, Ltd. Carlisle, Massachusetts 1995. The Savage View, Charles Savage Pioneer Morman Photographer-    Bradley W. Richards, MD. Carl Mautz Publishing 1995.  Judah the Dreamer, A Practical Plan For Building the Pacific Railroad    Roseville Historical Society, Roseville, CA 1989. Tale of the Lucin- David Peterson    Old Waterfont Publishing, Trinidad, CA 2001. Trians of Discovery Western Railroads and National Parks- Alfred Runte    Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Niwot, CO 1998. The Last Spike is Driven Reenactment Script of the Golden Spike Ceremony    Southwest Parks & Monuments Association 2000. Across America on an Emigrant Train- Jim Murphy    Clarion Books, New York 1993.