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*The [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/index.html Transcontinental Railroad ]Includes a movie, photos, interactive map, and more. From ''The American Experience''. | *The [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/index.html Transcontinental Railroad ]Includes a movie, photos, interactive map, and more. From ''The American Experience''. | ||
*[http://cprr.org/Museum/index.html# Central Pacific Railroad ]Photographic History Museum. Though this website is titled Central Pacific, it includes many links to Union Pacific links and links to the total transcontinental experience. There are links to histories, government documents, journal entries and reminiscences, biographies, books, litigation. They are especially looking for information and stories of the Chinese railroad workers. | *[http://cprr.org/Museum/index.html# Central Pacific Railroad ]Photographic History Museum. Though this website is titled Central Pacific, it includes many links to Union Pacific links and links to the total transcontinental experience. There are links to histories, government documents, journal entries and reminiscences, biographies, books, litigation. They are especially looking for information and stories of the Chinese railroad workers. | ||
*[http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/railroad.htm Railroad History ]by Richard Jensen, Research Professor of History, Montana State University, Billings. This site contains links to many websites treating various aspects of railroad history. | |||
=== Books === | === Books === | ||
*Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869. New York, New York: Touchstone, Rockefeller Center, 2000. | *Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869. New York, New York: Touchstone, Rockefeller Center, 2000. | ||
*Andrist, Ralph K. ''The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians''. New York, NY Macmillan Company 1964. | *Andrist, Ralph K. ''The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians''. New York, NY Macmillan Company 1964. | ||
*Bain, David Haward. ''Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad''. New York: Penguin Putnam Books, 1999. | *Bain, David Haward. ''Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad''. New York: Penguin Putnam Books, 1999. | ||