Iron Horses rules of summer a grave-digging son of an

a grave-digging son of an ex-slave named Eustace

is desperate to get away from someone she's convinced will follow them wherever they go: her husband

Avery makes a shattering discovery: someone close to Tate planned to assassinate him

Lee's starving Army of Northern Virginia

electrifying series

Iron Horses rules of summer a grave-digging son of anA "masterly" account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad (Douglas Brinkley) by the author of the bestselling The Admirals. After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago. In Iron Horses, Borneman recounts the rivalries, contested routes,