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4 Andrew J. Russell, East and West Shaking
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5 “East and West,” New York Times.
6 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Un
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7 Foner, Reconstruction, 467.
8 “Railroad to the Pacific,” The Cadiz Sentin
9 Ibid.
10 “The Pacific Railroad,” National Republica
11 “Mr. Asa Whitney’s American Railroad,” M
11, 1851.
12 Ginette Verstraete, “Railroading America
cember 2002): 145–59.
13 Ibid.
14 Ambrose, 356.
15 Ibid.
16 Verstraete, “Railroading America,” 145-59
17 Ambrose, 26.
18 Ibid., 368.
19 Ibid., 21.
20 Ibid., 20.
21 Foner, 21.
22 Verstraete, 145–59.
23 Ambrose, 20.
24 Ibid., 358.
25 Ibid., 369.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid., 368.
28 Ibid., 357.
29 “P.T. Barnum’s Great Traveling World’s Fai
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