David Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America's past. From Omaha to San Francisco, they retraced the entire route of the first transcontinental railroad. Following abandoned railroad tracks and the traces of old wagon trails, cruising down back roads and main streets, they discovered the deep, restless, uniquely American spirit of adventure that connects our past to our present.In THE OLD IRON ROAD: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to go West, Bain conjures up the marvelous sense of coming unstuck in time as he lingers in the places that line the old emigrant routes of the railroad. Here one of the greatest of all American stories has found a chronicler truly up to the task of telling it. Bain has managed to portray the genuine heroism along with the brutal dispossession, both the utopian vision and the rampant corruption, as well as the constant battle between technological wonders and the natural elements. Anyone interested in the fabric of the American character will not want to miss this story.
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