Building the Pacific railway the construction-story of America's first iron thouroughfare between the Missouri river and California, from the inception of the great idea to the day, May 10, 1869, when the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific joined tracks at Promontory point, Utah, to from the nation's transcontinental with 22 illustrations and a map - Sabin, Edwin Legrand 1870- (Lippincott, 1919)