@article{349285,
      author = {Borneman, Walter R.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/349285},
      title = {Rival rails : the race to build America's greatest  transcontinental railroad /},
      publisher = {Random House,},
      abstract = {"After the completion of the first transcontinental  railroad in 1869, the rest of the country was up for grabs,  and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less  snowy route through the corridors of the American  Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago. In Rival Rails,  Borneman lays out in compelling detail the sectional  rivalries, contested routes, political posturing, and  ambitious business dealings that unfolded as an increasing  number of lines pushed their way across the country"  --Cover, p. 2.},
      recid = {349285},
      pages = {xxiii, 406 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2010},
}