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'Across America on an Emigrant Train' follows a journey made in 1879 by the young writer Robert Louis Stevenson, when he set off from Scotland to join the woman he loved in California. Because he had very little money, Stevenson chose the cheapest way to travel. His traveling companions on his storm-tossed crossing of the Atlantic and arduous three-thousand-mile train ride were emigrants who were hoping to settle in the vast new territories of the American West. Generously illustrated with eighty-five archival photographs, engravings, and lithographs, 'Across America on an Emigrant Train' offers a unique and compelling look at America and at the Americans who persevered to build the railroad that moved the country into the twentieth century.
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