Across America on an Emigrant Train
By Jim Murphy
1993
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The author of The Boys' War presents an illustrated history of the building of the transcontinental railroad, including Robert Louis Stevenson's account of his twelve-day journey to California on six trains in 1879.
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Author
Jim Murphy
Author · 27 books
An American author of more than 35 nonfiction and fiction books for children, young adults, and general audiences, including more than 30 about American history. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for his contribution in writing for teens. Jim lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, in a hundred-year-old house with his wife Alison Blank, a children’s TV producer and children’s book author and editor, his two talented musician sons, a regal mutt, an African water frog that will live forever, and a house vast collection of books..
