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1) Santa Fe: --steel rails through California

Author

Duke, Donald

Publisher

Golden West Books

Pub. Date

c1963

Language

English

2) My Western Pacific Railroad: an engineer's journey

Author

Holmes, Norman W

Publisher

Steel Rails West Pub

Pub. Date

1996.

Language

English

3) Southern Pacific Railroad

Author

Solomon, Brian

Series

MBI railroad color history

Publisher

Voyageur Press

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

4) Sierra railway

Author

Deane, Dorothy Newell

Publisher

Howell-North

Pub. Date

1960.

Language

English

5) Railroads of Nevada and eastern California

Author

Myrick, David F

Publisher

University of Nevada Press

Pub. Date

[1992-]

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

6) West coast interurbans: California

Author

Duke, Donald

Publisher

Golden West Books

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

7) Sacramento Northern

Author

Demoro, Harre W

Publisher

Signature Press

Pub. Date

[2009?]

Language

English

8) Donner Pass and those who crossed it: the story of the country made notable by the Stevens Party, the Donner Party, the gold-hunters, and the railroad builders, with old and new illustrations showing the pass in...

Author

Stewart, George R

Publisher

Lane Book co

Pub. Date

[1964]

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

9) California's Tidewater shortlines: railroads that touched the Western Pacific between Stockton and San Francisco

Author

Holmes, Norman W

Publisher

Shade Tree Books

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

10) The Pacific Coast Railway: central California's premier narrow gauge

Author

Westcott, Kenneth E

Publisher

Benchmark Publications Ltd

Pub. Date

[1998]

Language

English

11) Southern Pacific's slim princess in the sunset, 1940-1960: a look at Southern Pacific's narrow gauge Keeler Branch, the railroad just over the mountain from Death Valley

Author

Morris, Joe Dale

Publisher

Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

English

12) The great American railroad war: how Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris took on the notorious Central Pacific Railroad

Author

Drabelle, Dennis

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

c2012

Language

English

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The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William Randolph Hearst, swung into action writing over sixty stinging...