The building of the Union Pacific part of the first Transcontinental railroad

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The building of the Union Pacific part of the first Transcontinental railroad

There is a commonplace yet wrong understanding that the building of the Union Pacific was the easier and less risky enterprise in the Transcontinental railroad endeavor than the Central Pacific, which started in California. This widespread vision is as old as the Transcontinental railroad itself and helps explain why the promoters of the Central Pacific generally received more credits and less criticism than the Credit Mobilier crowd, although their methods were essentially the same …

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