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In ten discrete but cohering essays Coleman tackles the arc of that history as if it were an emotional experience with real psychological consequences - as chaotic

Carlos A. Schwantes: The West the Railroads Made [2008] hardback ZTEEN I devoured it in enormousNamed an "Outstanding Title" in University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2009 America's Railroad Age was little more than a decade old when Ralph Waldo Emerson uttered these prophetic words: "Railroad iron is a magician's rod in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water." Railroads exercised a remarkable hold on the imagination. The railroad was not merely transportation; it was a technology that promised to