Across America on an emigrant train /
by Jim Murphy.
- New York : Clarion Books, [1993] �1993.
- 150 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
"Illustrated with photographs and prints.".
Includes bibliographical references (page [139]-144) 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. Includes archival photographs.
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