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Description
Experience the great railroad race of 1863 as two companies compete to connect America by rail in this exciting graphic novel.
In 1863, America is divided not just by the Civil War but by months of travel over thousands of miles. Two railroad companies, one from the East and one from the West, are given the monumental and dangerous task of connecting the nation. The work falls to immigrant laborers who accomplish astounding feats of engineering while waiting for an answer: Will those who connect the country be accepted into it?
Exhilarated readers will come away with clear enough pictures of the project's costs and benefits to decide whether the one was worth the other. Suspenseful, grand of scope, and related with cinematic brio.
Andy Hirsch is a cartoonist living in Dallas, Texas. He is the author and illustrator of several entries in First Second's Science Comics series including Dogs, Trees, Cats, and Rocks and Minerals
