Chronicles the building of the transcontinental railroad and charts its impact on the development of America's West. Archival photography and interviews with historians and railroad experts paint a vivid portrait of how railroads forever altered the social and political landscape of the United States while examining violence and discrimination against Chinese railroad laborers, the development of unions, and the role played by Congress in the Big Four railroad companies' domination of California transportation.
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