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Transcontinental Railroads

In: Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia
Edited by: Mary Yu Danico
Subject:Ethnic Studies, Race & Ethnicity, American Studies
Keywords:railroads; rivers

The Transcontinental Railroad (TCRR) in America was the young nation's greatest engineering marvel in the 19th century. It was built from 1863 to 1869 between Sacramento in California and Omaha in Nebraska (1,907 miles), to fulfill the lofty national goal of ...

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  Danico, M. Y. (2014). Transcontinental railroads. In Asian American society: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. 905-908). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452281889.n293
  
  Danico, Mary Y. "Transcontinental Railroads." In Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia, edited by Danico, Mary Yu., 905-8. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452281889.n293.
  
  Danico, M. Y. 2014. Transcontinental Railroads. In: Mary Y. Danico Editor, 2014. Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 905-908 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452281889.n293> [Accessed 13 Aug 2022].
  
  Danico, Mary Y. "Transcontinental Railroads." Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014, pp. 905-8. SAGE Knowledge. 13 Aug 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452281889.n293.
  
  Danico, Mary Y. (2014). Transcontinental railroads In:Transcontinental railroads Asian American society: An encyclopedia Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2014:905-908. doi:10.4135/9781452281889.n293
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