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A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.
The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations...
4) Wild country
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"In this powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, humans and the shape-shifting Others will see whether they can live side by side...without destroying one another. There are ghost towns in the world--places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others. One of those places is Bennett, a town at the northern end of the Elder Hills--a town surrounded...
9) Bitter wind
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""When you live the sort of life I do -- the life of a hired gun -- you start to figure you can handle any tough hand who comes along. But the tough hand I had to drill right between the eyes just happened to be a Flynn. And even though it was self-defense, there's no way his pa and the rest of the clan wouldn't come after me. In a wild race across the frozen prairie, their first bullet killed my horse and their second caught me right in the thigh....
15) West of railhead
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"'WELCOME TO EDEN GROVE -- FASTEST GROWING CITY IN THE WEST.' That was the message that greeted newspaperman Clark Tanner as he rode into the raw, new town in the summer of 1872. A lot of people, Tanner included, were putting all their hopes and dreams into founding the town and making a fresh start of things. Perhaps no one of them wanted to wipe the slate clean more than Clark Tanner, whose crusade against the corruption of a powerful block of Nebraska...
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"This book is a volume in Native American history, in African American history, and in the long history of the settlement of the U.S. West. The Indian Removal brought eastern Indians to Indian Territory (now modern-day Oklahoma); the eastern Indians appropriated land from the Indians already living there, and they used the language of colonization to do it. In addition, they held slaves"--
19) Gaza: a history
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"Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed while simultaneously and paradoxically enduring prolonged neglect. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai desert on the one hand and the Mediterranean Sea on the other, Gaza was contested by the Pharaohs, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the Fatimids, the Mamluks, the Crusaders, and the Ottomans. Napoleon had to secure it in 1799 to launch his...