In picture and text this book tells of the locomotives involved in the building of the first transcontinental railroad and its completion with the driving of a

In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical p

A rare antique draws Denver detective C. J. Floyd into a plot of murder, greed, and a mystery rooted in nineteenth-century Utah. The owner of a Denver antique s

Dowty, master mechanic for the locomotives at Golden Spike National Historic Site, recounts the painstaking, five-year process of recreating the steam locomotiv

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