Across America on an Emigrant Train,9780395764831

Across America on an Emigrant Train

by Murphy, Jim
Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780395764831
ISBN10: 0395764831
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-05-19
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary

An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.

Author Biography

Jim Murphy is the author of An American Plague, which received the Sibert Medal and a Newbery Honor and was selected as a National Book Award finalist. His Clarion titles include THE BOYS' WAR and other award-winning nonfiction as well as a picture book, FERGUS AND THE NIGHT-DEMON. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his family. For more information visit www.jimmurphybooks.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(7)
The Journey Begins
7(12)
All Aboard!
19(26)
Aboard the Emigrant Train
45(28)
Into the Wild West
73(24)
Across the High Sierras
97(22)
In the Good Country
119(16)
A Final Word
135(4)
Bibliography 139(6)
Index 145

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