Across America on an emigrant train /
by Jim Murphy ; ill. with photos. and prints.
- New York : Clarion, 1993.
- 150 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.
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